How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?

Really interesting

This guy is annoying

Depends on your ethnic appearance

Dost thou wiste to meete later?

I am damn late to comment here but I could understand most of the text ( at 5.00 ) reading it and I am .... German. Interestingly I didn't understand a lot listening to it. :)

It's kinda amazing how the Delorean in this video looks like it's AI generated, even though this video came out years before generative AI was released. Maybe Simon time traveled forward and asked Dall-E to make the picture for him.

You speak so fast yourself, that I barely understand YOU! lol

The first brits I ever met were from Liverpool. I still don't know what we were talking about.

I honestly can't understand you half the time but this video is enlightening. Thick British accents is difficult to understand with your candance and you speak really fast sometime. The accent, cadance and speed make it hare to understand you sometimes.

didnt know you had this show tooo

Back to King Arthur's Court? I can barely understand you.

I feel like there is so much being said that is soooo unnecessary and just convolutes the video.

Nothing stumps Google translate like a bit of Old Norman.

Most 18 year olds now can barely communicate effectively.

ººThe Earth is stable and can not be moved.

Rambling pish.

Please don't use that awful background "music". What I hear are almost random, high pitched noises, which interfere with your voice, making it very hard for me to follow what you are saying. I am a bit hearing impaired, and so, blasting me with complicated high frequency music/noise makes things really quite unpleasant.

Well this video is from 5 years ago... so the answers is at least 5 years

North of the Washin general? Probably last Tuesday. New Zealand (Nah Zullun), Ulster (Norn Irn) Birmingham? Doubtful it was ever possible.

How far back do you need to go to speak English?

Fuck this vid. Was genuinly interested in the answer and all we have is mumbo jumbo about delorean time travel and space, galaxies, bs. I'm not here for entertainment, just a to the point answer.

history flavored Vsauce

English the first time I heard it I felt in love it originally I speak Portuguese but if I could choose only English in my house American English what I meant to say

I’m at the end and all I can think is how if you could time travel you would be bending spacetime so why wouldn’t you also be able to change location as you please?

3 weeks?

I'm American and I sometimes find that I need subtitles for British television.

So how far back?

There are phone apps that translate modern speech to Shakespearian speech.

Side by side, you look pretty similar to Shakespeare.

Hey Vsauce

a few examples of what things would have sounded like throughout would’ve been helpful. the only i picked up were a few singular words with the vowel shifts and a link to someone else’s video for OP. oh, and one “arg” 🏴‍☠️

Doesn't it depend if you are a grammar nazi?

my english grandfather (Walkden of Lancashire origin) said he could walk 5 miles from where he lived and run a good chance of not understanding people in the way they actually spoke in the villages, this was pre-1920, he was born in 1902. I'm sure printing presses, vs scribes, increased access to books and writing a letters etc helped consolidate a lot of consistency. Then, radio boosted it similarly and seeing people speak on TV took it to a different level as well. Introduction of foreign english speakers probably helped in a kind of twisted way too as the English banded together emotionally to protect the erosion of the mother tongue , so it would not go the way the British Empire had... (yes I'm a Yank - 1st gen, parents were Canadian born - english and dutch parentage for them...) :)

Glad you've slowed down a bit; well done.

The use of the term "grammar Nazi" is unnecessarily offensive. Some people reading this will be Holocaust survivors or be friends or relatives of them. Let's actually remember what the Nazis did before we so airily describe other people as Nazis.

Who cares

Dude, I can’t even understand some villages today!

Did you have an ice cream van parked outside?

Please use the Metric system of weights and measures.

Forget about understanding old English …I can’t understand the host. Sounds like Monty python mocking a news caster

That "great bowell shift" sounds gut-wrenching!

Interesting topic, but I have a hard time with this narrator. Sorry.

..and what about your accent ..where does it come from? I`m English, so tread carefully with you answer.

Ah yes... the sexism and racism of 16th century England was a major concern that would definitely be at the top of everyone's list of problems if they went back in time. Sorry, my eyes can't roll back as far as they need to for this. What a sanctimonious, soy-boy twit.

Enver Hoxha banned beards. Who wants to start the conversation?

As someone born in 1953 I sometimes find it difficult to communicate in the 21st century. To take one example when did "conversation" replace debate, discussion, and argument? A conversation is about the weather not a philisophical idea!.

Horrible video. Woke man, a condescending, full-of-himself, pompous blowhard, preaching his modern values to us, denigrating his forefathers because they had different values, which he would have had had he lived in tough times. P.S. "I am a socialist" - A. H. "Mein Kampf" National Socialist party.