As I read random Shakespeare selections in Old English before sleep, the name of a familiar town caught mine eyeK3R3G3 OP t1_j1c17n9 wrote
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I'll take the correction, but it seems your caps lock thank you indicates this is very important to you. It wasn't really the point of the post, which was The Fresh Prince thing being amusing -- I just meant whatever it is when shit is written this way. That's what I was looking at, where text is that way. I'll accept that that isn't Old English, but it's also not as clear as your example.
ThaddyG t1_j1iv0qy wrote
That's more of a difference of spelling and typography, the letters that look like f are actually s, it's just how a lot of things were written back then. Combined with spelling being less codified back then so you get stuff like fleepe = sleepe = sleep.
Old English, Middle English, and Modern English are technical linguistic terms and ways of categorizing the historical changes in the language
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