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Originally Posted by HarryT
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"?
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Thanks for mixing up my brain. I was taught that Shakespeare was in late Middle English, and Chaucer was Old English... so I've told some people that I can read Old English. I may have actually said so on this forum.
I can read English all the way back to Chaucer (slower than current-day English obviously, but without much difficulty), but not before, so assuming what you are saying is true, I must adjust some stuff over here. I've looked up the Old English you mentioned (which I didn't even know existed), and I understand zilch. Nada.