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Originally Posted by drjd
I agree. Books written in modern style are easier and faster to read.
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I sometimes wonder: are the older books more difficult to read because the language is just older, or because they are actually more difficult, using more obscure words and/or more complicated sentence constructions?
The only thing I have difficulties with are references; older works tend to refer a lot to even older classics, or to lo locations, places and events that were common knowledge back then, but aren't now. So I read slower because I have to stop and go look something up.
If it'd be possible to give a new book to someone in 1850, would he also have difficulties?