The conversation between human and AI assistant.
How far back in time could we go in the UK before we would start to be unable to understand the English of the day?
That's a long time ago. What would English have sounded like before then?
It would have sounded quite different depending on the time period. For example, Old English, spoken from roughly the 5th to the 11th century, would sound almost like a completely different language to modern speakers. Middle English, spoken from the 11th to the 15th century, would still be somewhat familiar, but with more archaic words and different pronunciation.