Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

I'll agree with the bit about the 18th/19th century versus today.
Especially when it comes to "stuff you don't really expect to be
interesting," (political tracts, scientific explanations, etc.), the older
stuff is a lot more pleasant to read.  I also stumble through it a lot less
when reading out loud -- it's more like something you could reasonably
expect a person to say, I guess.  Recent styles seem to favor the "haul out
a dictionary and thesaurus and big pad of notepaper" method of
reading/interpretation -- I can't read a lot of the current academic stuff
without at least the pad of paper.

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Robert B Wilson
> 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>
>
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