Eddie Izzard attempts to buy a brown cow using old English.
Reminds me of a joke: what’s the difference between Norwegian and Danish? A potato in the mouth.
Go back far enough (before the snobs shovelled all that French, Latin and Greek into English) and you’d have no problem understanding a Scandinavian.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 19 Nov 2022, 20:30,
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the were pretty hardcore, the frisii
the romans had a couple of attempts to subdue them but pulled back behind the rhine. reckon their genetic influence explains a certain english recalcitrance
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 19 Nov 2022, 21:22,
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It weidzjen op it griene, griene gers.
I started to read her bio today, "Believe me". It's jolly good.
Orbs.
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