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How to understand the language in old books?

Asked by midnight_lover 8 months ago, 5 answers.

I'm 13 and can't under stand the languege in older books like romeo and julet or the serise of jane austin is there some thing I could do to help me under stand it better help please and thank you

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Thunder Robot Answered by funadvice on Nov 20, 2007, 01:16PM

I don't know about Jane Austin, but with any of William Shakespeare's works like Romeo and Juliet the language is going to be harder to understand - he wrote in a specific style called 'Iambic Pentameter' (not sure if thats how its spelt!), which can be rather confusing to read, and the words used can be a bit trying in this day in age.

Old flourish-style handwriting can be really hard for my generation to read, as can older works in general - I started reading the Iliad by Homer last year and found it tough going until I stopped trying to read it as a poem or in its broken up lines, and just treated it like someone had pressed enter in all the wrong places far too many times when typing it up. Remember, these works were written some time ago, when language was different, and even then they sometimes tried to be different for the day... and it didn't catch on!

Whiteboard portrate Answered by filletofspam on Nov 20, 2007, 01:21PM
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Shakespeare is rather difficult for modern readers to understand. You will appreciate it a great deal more if someone explains the humor, rhetoric, and context. If you are tackeling Shakespeare on your own try an annotated edition.

www.freewebs.com/environmentsavers1 Answered by environmentsavers1 on Nov 20, 2007, 03:04PM
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They have modern additions.
Sparknotes.or Cliffnotes.

Answered by thedudette on Nov 20, 2007, 10:41PM
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SORRY I DONT READ UNLESS NESSISARY

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Shovels, the spawn of distasteful intent. Answered by shovels on Nov 28, 2007, 07:29PM
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Well if it's HOW they're speaking like the traditional, thous, arts, speakeths, and other things then it's generally easy. Just send me a few words you need to to translate into modern-day english from that style in a funmail and I'll get it back to you as quickly as I can.

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