Try reading it with a Scottish accent. It becomes remarkably easy to understand then.

If you're reading it with a North American accent, that's where it's difficult.

Was a trick I learned in university when dealing with Canterbury tales/beowulf/ other Middle English texts.

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Discovery about the bible will always catch my attention.

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Lithuanian is a very conservative language in terms of the changes that have occurred in it in the many centuries since it diverged from PIE.

This means that to someone who speaks, say, English, learning Lithuanian is just as difficult as learning Sanskrit. So while it's useful in some sense, in that if you already speak Lithuanian it will be somewhat easier for you to learn Sanskrit, it's not like you should learn Lithuanian in order to better learn Sanskrit.

Plus, the similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian tend to be somewhat overstated by non-linguists.

Is the law of our side if I say aye?

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Interesting. This post caught my attention.

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Hahaha! I'll accept it!

*Whan that Aprile, with his showeres soote, and the raines hath perced to the roote... ________________0 hath this thy comme, in pilrammage for soote"

(yes, I'm drunk right now, so please accept this as an approximation)

Yep. If I'm not mistaken Hindi is the closest related language.

Source: All my North Indian friends had no trouble learning it in school, but as a South Indian I barely passed the class 😭

From a previous reading I thought I had a reference that many Greeks had converted or entered into Jainism, too. I can't refind what I had in mind but maybe an older writing is also of some interest; from The Greeks In Bactria And India by W. W. Tarn, 1938, p. 391 "... but in fact at present there are only five Greeks whose religious predilections are known or can be deduced, and three of these were not Buddhists...." in https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282142/page/n413/mode/2up

What, you egg?

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Soo...a bit like Latin.

But they didn’t need to create any of those if they couldn’t see above their own heads?

Why do i recognise this film but cant place the name?

Because, they are mostly modern day priests and their families living in India, who learned them as religious scripts passed on through generations. Lot of intricacies are lost through this method, but it's the only way the language has survived as a spoken language. Almost none of those 25000 speakers really speak or use sanskit for their day to day activity, rather they use it as a secondary language mainly to perform religious rituals and prayers.

I'm pretty sure mensur fencers were more of the aristocratic Prussian officer type which tended to despise the nazis. Most high ranking SS men came from the working class, often with WW1 enlisted service like Hitler himself and post-WW1 involvement in Freikorps militias..

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Don’t forget the uncanny similarities in their music

 
Edit: I say “their” when I’m myself Greek. I was demonstrably lazy with the phrasing.

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And Chaucer is late middle-English which is much easier to understand than even just early middle-English. I can read Chaucer pretty reliably now but fuck if I can read Layamon's Brut yet.