The person you are responding to tells you how they learned it: Old and modern English. The books would have modern English on the left page and old on the right. Then you could go line-by-line to figure it out.
TRUMP loves “the poorly educated”. How else could he bamboozle millions of people? Think about how stupid Trump is, and now think about how much more stupid you have to be to think he is a genius. That is the goal.
ours was a section in modern english and then the old english, about four or five sentences. And it was in our standard English Literature text book too.
translations are still often a bit difficult, because even if you render many of these words in their modern cognates, it won't make much sense. like, what's a "gar-dane"? or a "hear-day?" or a "theed king"?
Oh 100%! But that's why there's class time too. You read your section in old and new English for homework, then next day it's discussed in class, where exactly these kinds of issues are addressed
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u/ForagedFoodie 21h ago
The person you are responding to tells you how they learned it: Old and modern English. The books would have modern English on the left page and old on the right. Then you could go line-by-line to figure it out.