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CPT Jack Durish
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If only learning language were simply a matter of vocabulary and pronunciation. But then there's idiom. The most profound problem in reading the classics by authors and playwrights of early and middle English lies in the idiom they used. It's also the major difference between contemporary British and American English
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SGT Kevin Hughes
SGT Kevin Hughes
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We had to learn Middle English to read Chaucer (and I have forgotten all of it). The Professor had some professional Actors come in and read it as Chaucer would have pronounced things. Even though I have forgotten how to read it...I still remember struggling to understand them. LOL
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Very interesting history share.
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