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An example of Middle English as spoken in Chaucer's 14th century:
"Thou seist ful sooth, quod roger, by my fey sooth pley, quaad pley, as the flemyng seith of fustian he wered a gypon al bismotered with his habergeon, Ywympled wel, and on hir heed an hat girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale. Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys. A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. Hire gretteste ooth was but by seinte loy; and she was cleped madame eglentyne."
What scenario is plausible so that this early English would stay unchanged as the English of the Empire and the 21st century?
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"The English language is a sea which receives tributaries from every tongue under heaven" (Emerson).
"Thou seist ful sooth, quod roger, by my fey sooth pley, quaad pley, as the flemyng seith of fustian he wered a gypon al bismotered with his habergeon, Ywympled wel, and on hir heed an hat girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale. Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys. A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. Hire gretteste ooth was but by seinte loy; and she was cleped madame eglentyne."
What scenario is plausible so that this early English would stay unchanged as the English of the Empire and the 21st century?
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"The English language is a sea which receives tributaries from every tongue under heaven" (Emerson).