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   From: miniter@attglobalZZ.net   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
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   >>In message    
   >>Steve Hayes  spoke these staves:   
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   >>In connection to that, it made me wonder to find no Shakespeare or   
   >>Chaucer on the list.   
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   >   
   > I imagine that depends heavily on the "translation".  I wonder if Chaucer in   
   > its original might be as intelligible to a Dane as to the English.  Every   
   > English reader probably _should_ try to read some Chaucer, but not in the   
   > original.   
      
      
   Actually, if it is read aloud, it makes much more sense.   
      
      
      
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
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