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Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:14:35 2016 No.8806033 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw reading the original untranslated Canterbury Tales

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:15:58 2016 No.8806038 >>8806033 I for one am deeply impressed

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:16:22 2016 No.8806042 >>8806033 pretty sure most university undergraduates in lit are required to read canterbury untranslated. Whenever we discussed it we read it "untranslated". It's not that big of a deal.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:47:32 2016 No.8806145 >>8806033 Anyone who isn't an idiot can do this. Fuck off.

Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:54:31 2016 No.8806168

>>8806042
>>8806145

I think what he meant by this is that this is an experience that really only native English speakers can have, for the most part; the vast majority of the world--even the literate world--will never be able to understand English well enough to read stuff in Middle English. Or at least I shall choose to interpret the OP that way, so that it's not completely asinine. The author is dead m80s, even on 4chan. He is also, of course, a fag.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:56:45 2016 No.8806175 File: 94 KB, 720x833, 15355670_1152504081524212_451804756410069001_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8806042 >>8806145 >>8806168 t. doesn't understand the meme

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 00:57:15 2016 No.8806177 File: 16 KB, 188x250, pound.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8806033 >Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 01:07:37 2016 No.8806205 >>8806175 You don't understand life, frogman.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 01:09:42 2016 No.8806213 File: 240 KB, 1194x3511, 14890512_316289108744685_3305922156438682452_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8806205 >tfw to smatr to understnad life

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 06:44:50 2016 No.8806795 >>8806213 pls post more brain-wojaks >>8806175 >>8806033

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 08:17:36 2016 No.8806967 >>8806168 are you from reddit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 08:33:48 2016 No.8807006 File: 68 KB, 448x450, 16351475145.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8806033 >tfw reading the original untranslated Beowulf

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 08:38:14 2016 No.8807018 >not reading superior anglo norman poetry

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 6 09:03:30 2016 No.8807084 File: 261 KB, 1200x1161, medieval4718_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8806033 Yes, it's a fun start.

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