Sun, Aug 14th
2011
This is awesome. And yes, I am a bit of a language nerd.
Buying a Cow in Old English | Neatorama
‘The Frisian language is spoken by about half a million people in the Netherlands and Germany. It is the closet surviving relative of Old English, the tongue of Anglo-Saxon England. How mutually intelligible are the two languages? In this clip from the documentary series Mongel Nation, Eddie Izzard, speaking only Old English, tries to buy a cow from a Frisian-speaking farmer.’
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