/lit/ - Literature

>People didnt get around much, even in their own countries.
>This allowed various dialects and differing speak of a particular language to flourish.
>Northern England used "S" in third person singular sentences "He takes."
>Southern england used "eth" "He taketh."
>Differing dialects allowed diversity in various texts.

>Fast forward to today
>mass literacy
>English is now standarized
>Dialectal speak and inflections in writing are punished in schools.
>Dialects are not even allowed to exist because globalisation makes everything homogenous in accent and writing: Books, tv, film, writing.
>Everything's boring now

We lost something, great, anons.

>Si nullos amicos habes, habes vitam tyranni; si invenies amicum verum, vita tua erit beata.

>>19722654
>tfw had to read the entirety of War and Peace in school
Russian schools are torture