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Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate
by gbrits 7y ago
Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate
- vincentmarle 7y agoOld Dutch is actually a lot like Old English, they’re both sister languages. Supposedly speakers of those languages were able to (mostly) understand each other, similarly to a dialect.
- jdminhbg 7y agoThat's Old in the sense of the first millennium AD. This is "old" in the sense of two hundred years ago. Very different.
- ori_b 7y agoOld English is not similar enough to English for English speakers to understand, so this isn't particularly helpful. https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/orosius.html https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/orosius.html https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/chron.html https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/chron.html
- prox 7y agoThe article states under the header “news from Spain” : “In the last days a terrible [amount of] dying has transpired that the gravediggers state that they have no recollection [of such a thing] since the Cholera. Most people die of lung and chest complications that follow from the flu.” 27-01-1848