User blog comment:ChrysieeBoo Lovely/Topical Question of the Month: Ninja-Wizards on the Wiki?/@comment-24280582-20140325144025/@comment-5879271-20140325170811

I think that pitting magic against ninjutsu would really be a learning experience for the wiki. It's different, and I think that's great. (personally) It's just two different fighting styles, nothing more. And just as not all purebloods are supremacists, even though that's the stereotype, apparently, not all ninjas are assasins or  morally neutral.

For instance, the Durmstrang people, in the book/movie, seemed to use both staffs and wands and be more physical/brusque with their magic. The Beauxbatons people were more subdle and delicate. Hogwarts is more of a mix. The Triwizard tournament is pitting all three styles against eachother.

Really, wizard vs. ninja is the same deal, only the styles are farther apart.

Here:

Old English: '''Ær þæm þe Romeburg getimbred wære iiii hunde wintrum 7 hundeahtatigum, Uesoges, Egypta cyning, wæs winnende of suðdæle Asiam, oð him se mæsta dæl wearð underþieded. 7 he Uesoges, Egypta cyning, wæs siþþan mid firde farende on Sciþþie on ða norðdælas, 7 his ærendracan beforan asende to þære ðeode, 7 him untweogendlice secgan het þæt hie [oðer] sceolden, oþþe ðæt lond æt him alesan, oþþe he hie wolde mid gefeohte fordon 7 forherigan. Hie him þa gesceadwislice ondwyrdon, 7 cwædon þæt hit gemalic wære 7 unryhtlic þæt swa oferwlenced cyning sceolde winnan on swa earm folc swa hie wæron. Heton him þeh þæt ondwyrde secgan, þæt him leofre wære wið hiene to feohtanne þonne gafol to gieldanne. Hie þæt gelæstan swa, 7 sona þone cyning gefliemdon mid his folce, 7 him æfterfolgiende wæron, 7 ealle ægypte awestan buton þæm fenlondum anum. 7 þa hie hamweard wendon be westan þære ie Eufrate, ealle Asiam hie genieddon þæt hie him gafol guldon, 7 þær wæron fiftene gear þæt lond herigende 7 westende, oð heora wif him sendon ærendracan æfter, 7 him sædon þæt hie oðer dyden, oðþe ham comen oððe hie him woldon oðerra wera ceosan. Hi þa þæt lond forleton, 7 him hamweard ferdon. '''

Middle English: '''Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. Bifil that in that seson on a day, In southwerk at the tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye, Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle, That toward caunterbury wolden ryde. The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste. And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste, So hadde I spoken with hem everichon That I was of hir felaweshipe anon, And made forward erly for to ryse, To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse. But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.'''

Modern English: '''It would also be foolish, however, to think that winning these protections is the end of the struggle for equality. Here is where history is most instructive: Those same federal statutes that provide basic civil rights — and that expressly exclude L.G.B.T. people — have left lots of inequality in their wake. This is true both in terms of whom the laws protect and what those covered are protected from.'''

People today are barely able or not able at all to read Old English, and Middle English is hard, but they're just varied forms of Modern English; they're what came before. They're the same, but different.

Or take dialects of language. People form different areas of the same country use different vocabulary and grammar, but they still speak the same laguage.