Comment by Skipp_To_My_Lou on 02/04/2020 at 15:35 UTC

67 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

View submission: Thank you everyone who participated in /r/HistoricalAITA for April Fools, 2020! Here is the full rundown of submissions, and more importantly, the tallying of the judgements!

Special shoutout to u/hergrim for staying so in character as Henry V that he wrote in Middle English... which was surprisingly easy for me to understand, at least as it was written.

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Comment by Platypuskeeper at 02/04/2020 at 16:23 UTC

29 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I actually left some comments around the site in-character as Birger Magnusson ( /u/HwarLaghtiIakNykilin ) in Old Swedish, too. Doesn't seem very many can read them though :P

Comment by [deleted] at 02/04/2020 at 17:29 UTC

14 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Flashbacks to *Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog*. Man I miss when that was still being regularly updated

Comment by Hergrim at 02/04/2020 at 18:32 UTC

11 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you! It was a lot of fun translating the text and trying it make it appropriately archaic. There were actually a few times when I deliberately chose the minority spelling over the most common form, so it would have been even easier to read if I hadn't decided on maximum Ye Olde Ynglishness.