[stylist] Old English truly frustrates me

[Brenda]

Hi Jim
I just love the way you put that.

Brenda


On 11/4/2011 2:19 PM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi,
> OK. Who are some poets that beginning poetry people would get something out of other than a headache?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
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> Let's see, who is it?  Robert Browning?  He writes poems in the Scottish
> style.  At least I think it's him.
> That's even worse to understand than Shakespearean English.
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Homme, James
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> Hi Bridget,
> I stand corrected and frustrated. I'm going to find an anthology of poetry,
> so I can attempt to get some culture.<grin>
>
> Jim
>
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> Behalf Of Bridgit Pollpeter
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:10 AM
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> Subject: [stylist] Old English truly frustrates me
>
> Jim,
>
> Actually, the King James Bible and Shakespeare are not old English but
> early modern English. Old English doesn't sound anything like modern
> English instead sounding like a foreign language. Not only would old
> English be incomprehensible to most of us, but written material in old
> English would still follow medieval writing structure which was before
> most grammar rules existed like spaces between words, punctuation,
> capitalization and paragraphs.
>
> Understanding early modern English can be difficult. Personally, I never
> found "getting the gist" of early modern English difficult, but certain
> words weren't familiar to me. It helps to read with a dictionary and any
> study material you can find to supplement your reading. It may take some
> longer to read material like this, and others can pick it up a bit
> quicker. It's just a more archaic manner of speaking than we currently
> speak, but it is modern English, not old English or even middle English,
> but early modern English.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
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> Hi,
> I went to http://www.poetry.org. I found some of the poems they show
> from famous poets. Some of them are in English old, like the King James
> Bible, but more cryptic. How do you begin to crack the code?<grin>
>
> Jim
>
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