“When the country in which they live changes”, people change unrecognisably, a reformed militiaman explains.

一个编制重组过的民兵解释说，“当他们生活的国家发生改变时”，人们变得难以辨认了。

If this disturbs you, remember that this column is written in a mangled version of Anglo-Saxon, learned badly by waves of Celts, Vikings, Normans and others until it became an unrecognisably different tongue.

如果你对此感到不安，请记住，本篇专栏文章就是用面目全非的盎格鲁-撒克逊语写成的，凯尔特人、维京人、诺曼人等等都学习了盎格鲁-撒克逊语，而且学得很糟糕，直到它变成了一种截然不同的语言。