Past Is Prologue

How Far Back in Time Could a Modern English Speaker Go and Still Communicate?

The transition from Old English to Modern English was a process, not an event

Kathy Copeland Padden
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMay 14, 2019

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Photo: Marianne Purdie/Getty Images

Changes in language don’t occur overnight, though slang terms come in and out of use relatively quickly and new words are invented while others fall…

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Kathy Copeland Padden
Human Parts

is a music fanatic, classic film aficionado, and history buff surfing the End Times wave like a boss. Come along!