The reason he's hard to understand isn't because of his accent or that language has changed, he's just mumbling.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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US southern accents are harder to understand than Tolkien
Unless you're talking about cajuns, you are incorrect. We may slur our words, but we're loud as shit, unlike Mumbles Mc Worldbuilding over here.
What are cajuns for you? On the internet I'm seeing French peasant settler descendants, slave descendants and some other groups.
Typically Cajun refers to white folks from western Louisiana. They're mostly descendants of French protestants who moved south from French Canada
I had always heard that he was famous for this and no one liked him as a professor because no one could ever understand him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-rgvkRfwc
All jokes aside, it's just a matter of getting used to the accent. If you listen to people speaking in that accent you will be able to identify what they're saying quite easily. I have to admit I have the concentrate on what he was saying to understand him but he was intelligible. Hopefully the internet will keep English from deviating too much in the future but I'm sure it will. We just have to be patient with each other
The auto captions helped but even they couldn't understand half of what he was saying.