The reason he’s hard to understand isn’t because of his accent or that language has changed, he’s just mumbling.
I had always heard that he was famous for this and no one liked him as a professor because no one could ever understand him.
According to at least one guy apparently.
US southern accents are harder to understand than Tolkien
Unless you’re talking about cajuns, you are incorrect. We may slur our words, but we’re loud as shit, unlike Mumbles Mc Worldbuilding over here.
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Ok you kinda have a point but that is definitely an outlier
What are cajuns for you? On the internet I’m seeing French peasant settler descendants, slave descendants and some other groups.
Typically Cajun refers to white folks from western Louisiana. They’re mostly descendants of French protestants who moved south from French Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-rgvkRfwc
All jokes aside, it’s just a matter of getting used to the accent. If you listen to people speaking in that accent you will be able to identify what they’re saying quite easily. I have to admit I have the concentrate on what he was saying to understand him but he was intelligible. Hopefully the internet will keep English from deviating too much in the future but I’m sure it will. We just have to be patient with each other
The auto captions helped but even they couldn’t understand half of what he was saying.
