When people say things like: > The only strange word is schuleþ itself it makes me think Middle English is not easy at all. Out of the entire sentence I unamb

When people say things like: > The only strange word is schuleþ itself it makes me think Middle English is not easy at all. Out of the entire sentence I unambiguously recognize "to," "that/þat" and "men", and I can guess but can't be sure that "alle" means "all" by recognizing that "alles" is German for all and supposing that English lost the trailing e recently. None of these words have high semantic meaning and I am unable to make a guess at any of the remaining words in the sentence based on context, since I have no context. I'm not a dumb man, nor do I have a small vocabulary. I probably know more about linguistics and especially historical linguistics than the vast majority of the population due to my interest in conlanging. But the fact that some people think that the meaning of the rest of the words in the sentence is so obvious as to serve as an example for how obvious Middle English is, is probably the reason why I've failed or nearly failed every English class where we've had to read Shakespeare, and never garnered any sympathy from teachers who are so certain that "trybut" is obviously "tribute" as anyone can plainly see.