• @Rhoeri
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    11 hours ago

    Because that’s what you want. A “historian” that opens with:

    “I don’t care what anyone says…”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      611 hours ago

      I would not be at all surprised if he thought that was the language Shakespeare used.

      Because I have seen Early Modern English called Middle English sooooo many times.

      • @shalafi
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        250 minutes ago

        Shakespeare’s easily understood, especially if you pick up on the vocabulary. LOL, the English wouldn’t understand a word of Middle English.

  • @[email protected]
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    1820 hours ago

    I don’t care what anyone says!

    proceeds to talk at length and with much fervor about what he believes people said

    • Flying SquidOP
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      620 hours ago

      Imagine the length if he did care!

  • @[email protected]
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    1022 hours ago

    This is so insane I cannot take it seriously. What the absolute fuck. I am really hoping this not real.

    It’s not real, right? Right??

    • Flying SquidOP
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      1122 hours ago

      Do you doubt a historian on YouTube?!

      • @[email protected]
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        721 hours ago

        Oh! I’m sorry, I didn’t realize his degree was from YouTube. Clearly his expertise is beyond mine and my lame university degrees. I shan’t bother him with all my literal knowledge of the progression between Old and Middle English.

  • Hossenfeffer
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    1123 hours ago

    “I dont want to hear about the Welsh”

    Well. Quite. Who does?

    • Diplomjodler
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      19 hours ago

      What are you talking about? He took all the pills.

  • @[email protected]
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    622 hours ago

    It’s like the Victorians who believed that Britain was founded by a Trojan named Brutus, because how could the mighty lion-race of Albion who conquered a third of the globe possibly be descended from a bunch of woad-painted savages rather than the noble civilisations of classical antiquity?

    • @shalafi
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      249 minutes ago

      woad-painted savages

      I now have a new slur for the English. Thanks!