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Are there any routes to take or prerequisites which would make reading him more enjoyable? It is basically impenetrable for me.

>> No.19525068

>>19525056
Read a modern edition and then get into the Middle English version. It's simply fiction and it shouldn't be hard.

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Guys do I need to get a Masters degree in Ye Olde English before starting the Canterbury Tales.

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>>19525075
Chaucer is ackshully written in Middle English.

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Just get the Wordsworth CT, it's got the modern english versions of the less obvious on the side of the page

>> No.19525096

>>19525075
>>19525081
I liked the old wojaks more. These are very unsettling

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>>19525056
read it in the middle english and just guess what the words you dont understand mean. very fun and no one will be able to call you out on this because everyone else is guessing and also everyone else is a gay homo lol.