• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, after about 1000 years even the exact same language normally will change so much that it’s not understandable to speakers on opposing sides of that divide. I can’t read much German, but in reality German and English are very related and with some explanation one can see it pretty clearly. I agree with your sentiment I think, but “nothing like” is pretty absolute.