• Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I think later high school English classes do more to beat any love of reading teenagers have out of them by force feeding them […] obsolete shit […]

    How are you defining “obsolete” in this context?

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      11 hours ago

      Much of the language Shakespeare uses is obsolete to a modern English speaker. Let’s start with his use of the archaic second person singular thee thy thou and move on from there to words we don’t use anymore like “contumely” or “orisons” and then arrive at metaphors that haven’t made sense since the industrial revolution. Shakespeare wrote in English v. 2.3.1, here in the 21st century we speak English v. 6.13.2.