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if you can't manage the middle english, though LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 18/01/2010 01:20:37 AM
you won't get to enjoy it at all that way. I agree that poetry is best enjoyed in it's original language, but even if some of the "poetry" is lost in translation, the stories in the Canterbury tales are still enjoyable regardless.
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/Other Literature: Canterbury Tales - 17/01/2010 10:58:16 PM 17318 Views
The only way to read it is in the original. Most of it is poetry. - 18/01/2010 12:14:03 AM 2147 Views
if you can't manage the middle english, though - 18/01/2010 01:20:37 AM 2212 Views
How can any intelligent person who knows modern English "not manage" Middle English? *NM* - 18/01/2010 03:31:35 AM 1140 Views
How can any intelligent person who can manage Middle English not be bored to death reading it? *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:29:39 AM 1227 Views
Well... - 18/01/2010 04:31:47 AM 2245 Views
Taste is highly subjective, that's why. - 18/01/2010 01:36:52 PM 2091 Views
Fair enough. I find it excruciatingly boring. *shrugs* *NM* - 18/01/2010 02:56:34 PM 1092 Views
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Re: The only way to read it is in the original. Most of it is poetry. - 18/01/2010 07:53:05 AM 2189 Views
I remember being really surprised by the Canterbury Tales in high school. - 18/01/2010 01:18:56 AM 2085 Views
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I bought a bilingual edition (Middle and modern English), might have to read it at some point... *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:50:53 PM 1054 Views
Technically, that's not bilingual. - 20/01/2010 01:36:55 AM 1997 Views
I wouldn't count on Tim supporting you... - 20/01/2010 12:54:05 PM 2065 Views
I'm happy to say I first read this post in the original language . - 18/01/2010 10:42:41 PM 2184 Views
Well done. *NM* - 18/01/2010 10:44:51 PM 1216 Views

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