History Summarized: Why Is English Such A Mess? (Patreon)

History Summarized: Why Is English Such A Mess?

Linguistics is fun because you wonder why LanguageTM is the way it is, then you research it, and then you realize human language is at once the Sturdiest and MOST FRAGILE thing humans have ever created. SOURCES & Further Reading: "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" by John McWhorter Samples of text from Shakespeare's Sonnets & Plays, Folger Shakespeare Library Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" prologue Middle English text, via Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue MIT "Bilingual Beowulf" Old English text and modern English translation https://www.mit.edu/~jrising/webres/beowulf.pdf MUSIC: "Scheming Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions