system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Could I, as a speaker of early 21st century Modern English, be capable of communicating with a speaker of 14-15th century Middle English?
gpt
You can test it yourself by reading this untranslated extract from 'The Knight's Tale' by Chaucer:

Whilom, as olde stories tellen us,

That whilom was ycleped Scithia,

And weddede the queene Ypolita,

And broghte hire hoom with hym in his contree

With muchel glorie and greet solempnytee,

And eek hir yonge suster Emelye.

Obviously reading it is not like speaking it, but it'll give you a better idea of what Middle English was like. A lot of words are the same, but you also have leftover traces from Old English like 'ycleped' (means 'called' in relation to a name) and 'eek' (means 'also') a modern English speaker wouldn't understand.