Oct 3– From "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (~1400)

It sounds like this. Maybe. Who knows if this random Youtuber is reading correctly.

Oct 3– From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (~1400)

Summary: A bunch of people are going on a pilgrimage.

Commentary: This one is kind of interesting since it's right on the verge between readable "English" and not. No one expects you to read Beowulf without translation, but we got the straight Middle English for CT when I was in high school. I haven't looked at it since, so I was a little wary today. It's really not too bad. You have to read it out loud, but it's fairly parsable, and has good flow: "Of his complexioun he was sangwyn," looks weird, but it reads easy enough aloud. Harvard has the whole thing updated here. I wonder if this is usually assigned "translated" or not in schools these days.

I'll take it over BUURRRNNNSSS for sure.