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- An excerpt from As You Like It, act II, scene 7 -
The text:
From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and from hour to hour, we rot and rot.
How this sounded in the original pronunciation (OP):
Frahm oure to oure we root and root, and from oure to oure we raipe and raipe.
What these pronunciations rather clearly sound like, especially in OP:
From whore to whore we rut and rut, and from whore to whore we rape and rape.
Why is this allowed?
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I don't think changing our accents was a conscious decision.
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>>8738062
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I'm talking about how it was written relative to the accents of the time.
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>>8738097
>how it was written relative to the accents of the time.
No dictionaries, spelling was fluid. Pedantry wasn't invented yet. Suck a dick.
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>>8738170
>can't get the joke
you first
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