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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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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The "good reason" is that it's the language that the man who is widely considered to be the greatest ever writer who's ever used the English language wrote in. You want to deprive young people of their cultural heritage merely because it's "difficult"?