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by Jack Wallace on April 14th, 2008
Assuming you mean the language ...
Just to make sure... You do know that Shakespeare and the King James Bible and the like are NOT written in Old English, right? They're written in MODERN English. Chaucer wrote in MIDDLE English. OLD English was the language of the Anglo-Saxons before the Norman Conquest, and is a language virtually unintelligeble to most English speaking people today, as it looks like some sort of wierd German, and is actually somewhat close to Friesian.
Not being able to read Old English at all, I can't say as I like it much.
Shakespearian/King James English is another matter. It's beautiful.
by GiraffeyedDonor-ish on April 13th, 2008
Not especially "like" but it is quite interesting. I certainly wouldn't want to have to communicate in Old English though.
by Anonymous on April 13th, 2008
The booze or the furniture polish?
by -Ben 10- on April 14th, 2008
I don't even understand a single word. " Yestereday I read Julius caesar play. I felt as if I read someother language.
by maesterthief on April 13th, 2008
I can't understand that, though some modern slang is beyond my understanding as well.
by dr james on April 15th, 2008
id rather be nekked...wasnt that the ol choice
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Of course I know these facts.
I almost majored in English in college.
Grendel was a lonely child but his mother.
I suggested this new category BTW.
by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 14th, 2008