Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 18:59 |
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From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:48:17 +0100 Joe <joe@...> writes:
> >
> > However, the actual language has changed so much from the eighteenth
> > century
> > that actually reading much in it is hideously boring.
>
> 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>
>
On the other hand, I really like any text from the 6th-17th centuries. It's
just the 18th and 19th century styles I find horrible. Shakespeare's
writing, in my opinion, is very good, if a little hard to understand. It's
poetic, and just pleasant to read out loud. Anything written in Old English
is beautiful automatically, as is Middle English.