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Maybe in the past, written material was consumed by the elite, educated fraction of the population, and this was a way to "show off" their knowledge. Today, rea

• Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  > written material was consumed by the elite, educated fraction of the population, and this was a way to "show off" their knowledge One notes that even in letters sent home from American and Western European wars in the 19th century, the common soldiers who wrote those letters often used much more elaborate sentence structures than today, even though they were from the peasantry and had not received more than a rudimentary schooling.
  • wombatmobile 6y ago
    Uneducated peasant soldiers wrote that way too, in 19th century war letters from America and Western Europe.