I find the cultural aspects of that time to be fascinating, so maybe the language just goes along with it?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
/Other Literature: Canterbury Tales
- 17/01/2010 10:58:16 PM
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The only way to read it is in the original. Most of it is poetry.
- 18/01/2010 12:14:03 AM
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if you can't manage the middle english, though
- 18/01/2010 01:20:37 AM
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How can any intelligent person who knows modern English "not manage" Middle English? *NM*
- 18/01/2010 03:31:35 AM
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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
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Well...
- 18/01/2010 04:31:47 AM
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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
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I remember being really surprised by the Canterbury Tales in high school.
- 18/01/2010 01:18:56 AM
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I don't associate Penguin Classics with their modern desecrations.
- 18/01/2010 01:46:15 AM
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What's the deal with Penguin Classics?
- 18/01/2010 01:37:58 PM
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Re: What's the deal with Penguin Classics?
- 18/01/2010 04:10:53 PM
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There's much love for the Penguin Classics on my part. It makes my textbooks cost about 10 cents.
- 18/01/2010 09:45:26 PM
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Re: I like Eoin Colfer!
- 18/01/2010 10:20:57 AM
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Re: I like Eoin Colfer!
- 18/01/2010 10:22:11 AM
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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
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I'm happy to say I first read this post in the original language
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- 18/01/2010 10:42:41 PM
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- 18/01/2010 10:42:41 PM
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