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Comment author: Lumifer 18 March 2015 04:36:32PM 3 points [-]

Try hard to remember high school Latin, latinize English words back.

English did not develop from Latin. 1200 AD is only a century and a half after the Norman conquest and it means people are speaking early Middle English which you will have problems with.

or at any rate can read or write

Can you, now? Try reading this :-)

is not a beggar

You will become one once you want to eat.

Comment author: MathiasZaman 19 March 2015 08:32:53AM 1 point [-]

Getting used to "medieval" scripts is surprisingly easy. I've learned it before (and have mostly forgotten due to not using it) and the script of a specific age can be decrypted in about 30 minutes (faster with practice). Understanding the words is definitely a bigger barrier than being able to read it.

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