> Part of the magic of communication is deliberate double meaning. It is not a well defined API. In order to appreciate a double meaning, I'd have to have enou

> Part of the magic of communication is deliberate double meaning. It is not a well defined API. In order to appreciate a double meaning, I'd have to have enough basis of understanding to even be able to recognize it. > As someone with a disability who teaches computer science to students with disabilities (and without), your problems reading Shakespeare do not sound like those of people that come to mind when I read the term “regular person”. I don't have any particular diagnosis, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could get one. In any case, I'm just out here operating in regular society. I don't seem to have any particular problems communicating in English anyway, as far as I can tell. > If one is going to attempt to parse every word in the play and believes that it is the only way to follow the plot then one is going to have a bad time. I don't believe it is the only way. Most written material, like your post here, I'm able to digest chunks at a time. I just don't understand any of the chunks in Shakespeare. > If you could get to the Queen Mab speech reading that way then you’d probably melt at that point. I can read words, but at no point do I ever achieve comprehension in this type of material. If Queen Mab's speech consists of words, I wouldn't even notice a difference. > When you arrive at a word like mutiny think that Shakespeare isn’t talking about a literal mutiny (though he might be) but something that is like a mutiny. I don't think I can tell the difference between over-thinking it, and under-thinking it. My dictionary didn't have that definition in it. My best guess about what was meant was that the two houses each had internal struggles, which is more consistent with the only definitions of "mutiny" I've ever known. Also, it seems to be more consistent with taking a break from the feud. But now "I'm parsing every word again". When I encounter difficult material, I just don't know any other way to approach it.