On Words (and Onwards)

Language changes. Like, it really changes — and quite dramatic changes with each cultural shift. Otherwise, if you are a reader of English, you’d be able to breeze through this with no problem:
Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
-Excerpt from the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th Century