Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 18:59 |
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:25:09PM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> i disagree. i find reading modern english hideously boring. of course,
> many people may think that old=boring because of shakespeare's horrible
> writing... <snip long rant about shakespeare being the worst thing to
> happen to the english language since 1066>
That's not really fair. Shakespeare may be overrated, overanalyzed,
and overused, but his writing isn't "horrible". I've rather enjoyed
it ever since I got out of school and the associated haughty insistence
that Shakespeare is Lit'ratyure with a capital L.
-Mark