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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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I wonder how that is pronounced vs today. I imagine the spoken version drifts, but the sounds are more similar than the writing.
We can't know for certain, since no audio recordings exist for obvious reasons, and we'd need a time machine to find a fluent, native speaker we can be confident is using period-correct pronunciations.
We can make educated guesses though, by deconstructing existing descendent languages and tracing back commonalities.
Here's what we've got so far:
https://youtu.be/5NB2Z6pZBNA
Also worthy of note that this sort of writing would've been distinct from daily commoner chit-chat, which would probably be more recognizable to us. Not sure how much of that got recorded and survived through the years though.