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Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:17:29 2019 No.14080894 [Reply] [Original]

How the hell are you supposed to understand old English?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:18:35 2019 No.14080898 File: 14 KB, 340x375, Olde-english.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] By drinking this first

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:19:20 2019 No.14080901 >>14080894 Shakespeare isn’t old English it’s Middle English, and quite easy to understand with aid of a modern translation and/or annotations

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:19:22 2019 No.14080902 >>14080898 Based

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:22:11 2019 No.14080915 >>14080901 Shakespeare isn’t middle English It’s early modern English, and quite easy to understand with a little effort

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:25:19 2019 No.14080924 >>14080901 retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:26:55 2019 No.14080937 >>14080901 It's Early Modern English, you dipshit. Stop trying to sound smart. Chaucer is Middle English.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:31:50 2019 No.14080959 >>14080894 >old english >>14080901 >middle english God /lit/ is full of brainlets. Here's the answer OP. Learn how to conjugate archaic second person singular. Problem solved. Shakespeare is so fucking easy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:34:28 2019 No.14080971 File: 101 KB, 628x691, beowulf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP's not wrong you guys, he just posted the wrong pic I hope

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:50:04 2019 No.14081025 >>14080894 I was reading Shakespeare when I was 12 and I was a free lunch ESL Mexican

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:54:19 2019 No.14081037 >>14080971 How the fuck do you read that? I guess I'm skipping Beowulf :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 21:57:08 2019 No.14081049 >>14080894 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4bC0PwzA0 yall know Shakespeare was a black man, right? stupid cracker ass honkeys think you have ANY right to his works...

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 22:04:27 2019 No.14081077

>>14081037
I staunchly believe that a literate native English speaker can read Chaucer in the original with good annotations and won't find it too hard. Whenever I see a translation of Chaucer I want to tear it to pieces.
I have no problem with people reading Beowulf in translation though, I do too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 22:13:45 2019 No.14081117 >>14081077 Yeah Chaucer is fine, I was looking over it at the library in middle english and that's what I plan to read it in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 22:18:56 2019 No.14081136 File: 101 KB, 785x731, 1567553566230.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14080894 >thou art >WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?????!!!!

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