Like everyone and their brother, long dead author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer now has a blog, and covers very modern topics like Parys Launcecrona (Paris Hilton), Henri le Potier (Harry Potter) and video games. With The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer brought us a written record of just how effing different English was over six hundred years ago. For that, high school students will forever hate him. Chaucer blogs:

By Seynt Nintendus, ich thoghte to myself, thes aren thos 'video games' the which Lowys ys alwey pleyinge. A grete curiousitee dide posess me, and so ich askede Lowys to shewe me of the propertees of the games. He taughte me the lore of thes merveilous stories, the which aren peyntures that moue and haue sounde and often are made yn Japan, and aren controllid by a small devyce or engine ycovered wyth buttones that ys helde yn the hand.

Yes, the entire blog is like that. There is a Middle English glossary, thankfully. Delightfully nerdy! Brian Ashcraft

Ich Pwne Noobs! [Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog] Thanks, Steve!

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