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Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:22:02 2021 No.18367626 [Reply] [Original]

>book arrives
>its a "contemporary English" bastardization

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:24:01 2021 No.18367634 File: 61 KB, 1200x806, 1619705010669.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18367626 >not checking every aspect of a book before giving away your shekels to Mr Schlomo Goldberg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:24:56 2021 No.18367639 >>18367626 stop buying Penguin editions then

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:26:46 2021 No.18367650 Would you prefer thees and thous? I think it’s best to remove those archaisms while also not going full feminist professor and adding contemporary slang and idioms.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:27:27 2021 No.18367653 >>18367639 Penguin publishes Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales in the original language. Spenser with original spelling as well. You can throw all the shit you want at them but not telling a buyer what they're getting is not one of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:28:28 2021 No.18367661 >>18367650 >Would you prefer thees and thous? What kind of retarded question is this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 21:29:09 2021 No.18367663 File: 47 KB, 500x600, 1482528315533.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18367650 It was only a 19th century work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 1 23:48:40 2021 No.18368276 You're supposed to know that before you buy it you idiot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 2 00:20:33 2021 No.18368365 >>18367663 I call bullshit. No book written after 1700 has contemporary English bastardizations unless it's one of those No Fear versions after they branched out from Shakespeare, and even they keep the original on the opposite page.