Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know" video.

  1. For some reason I started shifting into an Aussie accent as I was trying to do the Shakespearian one, even though I've never been good at the Australian accent... Australian immediately made a lot more sense to me.
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  2. I Dutch it's literally still eieren, which is pronounced almost exactly as it was in the video.
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  3. Mind blowing and also not. They were all THE SAME language some 2000 years ago. It's like when you see a Dutch person and you're like, WOW they look so similar to Norwegians! The same people, the same language and culture, just 2000 years later.
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  4. Every time I heard older versions of English, I'm just like, that's Dutch. Modern Dutch word for eggs is... Eieren.
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