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Old English is just generally not a priority. There are only so many hours in the schoolday and so many schooldays in the year.
by bobthepanda 3y ago
Old English is just generally not a priority. There are only so many hours in the schoolday and so many schooldays in the year.
- irrational 3y agoNeed to teach kids to be self learners. I knew these facts about old English, but I wasn’t taught them in school. I learned them on my own.
- Phil987 3y agoOther kids know facts that you don't because people care about different things.
- skissane 3y ago> Old English is just generally not a priority “Ye Olde” is Middle English (or maybe even Early Modern) Old English doesn’t look like English at all. To my eyes, it looks Scandinavian-even though I know it is closer to Dutch than to Swedish/Danish/Norwegian. Actually, the closest living relative to Old English (apart from its descendants) is Frisian, a minority language of the Netherlands and northern Germany.