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Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 18:59
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