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And in fact, written English has changed very little in the past five hundred years or so: it's easy to read Shakespeare and not too hard to read Chaucer, altho
by waqf 10y ago
And in fact, written English has changed very little in the past five hundred years or so: it's easy to read Shakespeare and not too hard to read Chaucer, although their pronunciation would have been considerably different. Before that period there was a much greater rate of change in the written language.
- douche 10y agoAside from the spelling, Chaucer really is not too bad. I must have had to read a really, really abysmal treatment in school, because I did not remember the Canterbury Tales rhyming at all... http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm