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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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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The two sides of the coin:

These completely different languages are called [adjective] English because they were stages in the history of modern English.

These stages in the history of modern English are completely different languages because understanding one of them does not allow you to understand the other.

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