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Old 06-28-2014, 12:34 PM   #270
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
"Romeo and Juliet" is not written in "Old English"; it's written in early modern English.

This is an example of Old English (the beginning of the Lord's Prayer):
But regardless that it's early modern English, knowing how to read early modern English is not a skill kids need to know. It's a skill they don't care about and I don't blame them for it. It's a turn off to reading. So STOP MAKING KIDS READ EARLY MODERN ENGLISH for no good reason at all.
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