what was so important about Old English and Middle English that we felt the need to label them and what are the main differences?
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They are completey different languages.
It really is kinda that simple, as far as your question goes. Middle english is like a sort of related language, like cantonese vs mandarin, where rher is _some_ shared vocab and syntax, but onthe whole you can’t really interhcange them.
Old English is as foreign to modern english as modern english is to Norwegian, for non linguitic purposes.
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