Anyway, I don't expect people to be able to read MHG or modern German just like that. I was just tempted to try and write my reply that way (while hoping it would be grammatical) because of the mock ME in Morrígan's post.
Also, a lot of people even here in Germany are totally unaware of the periodicization of German, so when I showed them what I was working on for my BA thesis (transcriptions of MHG legal documents from the 13th century) they were often like "What is that, Old Gothic?"