First, can you give us a bit of background into this research project? How did the project begin? What exactly are these manuals? And why choose to analyze foreign language manuals that are hundreds of years old?

Yes, well, I guess I could start and take this question.

Bryn, once again, thanks for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to present our project and what we do with these language manuals.

in this project, you asked us how did it start.

I would say the project started with small individual studies and with fascination for these language manuals.

We've been all doing research on these language manuals, and the more we were doing this research, the more we discovered that this is an area that is hugely understudied, and actually it's very rare.

that in the area of linguistics, particularly in the area of historical linguistics, you find sources, you find domains that are so heavily understudied.

So it's amazing to see that hundreds of years ago, it was quite functional and it was quite open-minded and saying well look if you're in this area talk like this if you're in this area talk like this so that's that's really amazing and what have you found and maybe this is part of it but what have you found in the project that has surprised you most so far was there anything in the manuals that challenged any initial assumptions

First, can you give us a bit of background into this research project? How did the project begin? What exactly are these manuals? And why choose to analyze foreign language manuals that are hundreds of years old?

Yes, well, I guess I could start and take this question.

Bryn, once again, thanks for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to present our project and what we do with these language manuals.

in this project, you asked us how did it start.

I would say the project started with small individual studies and with fascination for these language manuals.

We've been all doing research on these language manuals, and the more we were doing this research, the more we discovered that this is an area that is hugely understudied, and actually it's very rare that in the area of linguistics, particularly in the area of historical linguistics, you find sources, you find domains that are so heavily understudied.

So we were very happy about this discovery.

And what have you found, and maybe this is part of it, but what have you found in the project that has surprised you most so far? Was there anything in the manuals that challenged any initial assumptions?

First, can you give us a bit of background into this research project? How did the project begin? What exactly are these manuals, and why choose to analyze foreign language manuals that are hundreds of years old?

Yes, well, I guess I could start and take this question.

Uh, Bryn, once again, thanks, uh, for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to present our project, uh, and what we do, uh, with these language manuals in this project.

You asked us how did it start.

I would say, um, the project started with small individual studies and with fascination for, uh, for these language manuals.

We've been all doing research, uh, on these language manuals, and the more we were doing this research, the more we discovered that this is an area that is hugely understudied, and actually it's very rare that, uh, in the area of linguistics, particularly in the area of historical linguistics, you find sources, you find domains that are so heavily understudied.

So we were very happy about this discovery, and, um, then we just started to dig deeper, and, uh, the more, the deeper we were diving in, the more we were observing that these, these language manuals are pretty unique.

And what have you found, and maybe this is part of it, but what have you found in the project that has surprised you most so far? Was there anything in the manuals that challenged any initial assumptions?

First, can you give us a bit of background into this research project? How did the project begin? What exactly are these manuals? And why choose to analyze foreign language manuals that are hundreds of years old?

Yes, well, I guess I could start and take this question.

Bryn, once again, thanks for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to present our project and what we do with these language manuals.

in this project, you asked us how did it start.

I would say the project started with small individual studies and with fascination for these language manuals.

We've been all doing research on these language manuals, and the more we were doing this research, the more we discovered that this is an area that is hugely understudied, and actually it's very rare.

that in the area of linguistics, particularly in the area of historical linguistics, you find sources, you find domains that are so heavily understudied.

So it's amazing to see that hundreds of years ago, it was quite functional and it was quite open-minded and saying well look if you're in this area talk like this if you're in this area talk like this so that's that's really amazing and what have you found and maybe this is part of it but what have you found in the project that has surprised you most so far was there anything in the manuals that challenged any initial assumptions

First, can you give us a bit of background into this research project? How did the project begin? What exactly are these manuals? And why choose to analyze foreign language manuals that are hundreds of years old?

Yes, well, I guess I could start and take this question.

Bryn, once again, thanks for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to present our project and what we do with these language manuals.

in this project, you asked us how did it start.

I would say the project started with small individual studies and with fascination for these language manuals.

We've been all doing research on these language manuals, and the more we were doing this research, the more we discovered that this is an area that is hugely understudied, and actually it's very rare.

that in the area of linguistics, particularly in the area of historical linguistics, you find sources, you find domains that are so heavily understudied.

So it's amazing to see that hundreds of years ago, it was quite functional and it was quite open-minded and saying well look if you're in this area talk like this if you're in this area talk like this so that's that's really amazing and what have you found and maybe this is part of it but what have you found in the project that has surprised you most so far was there anything in the manuals that challenged any initial assumptions