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Originally Posted by anglaispierre
When you consider that Shakespeare wrote his works 400 years ago and we can still understand his works without any problem, why do I find it so hard to understand the garbage that people send by text messages and postings on forums using text abbreviations, bad grammar, bad English, etc. I can normally work out what the person means, but on several ocassions I have given up. I feel like replying and saying "Do you speak like that". But why bother when 2/3 of the population are illiterate and the other half are innumerate.
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The other thing to consider is how much English changed between Chaucher's Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare. Most of us need a translation of Canterbury Tales yet there is less than 200 years between those two authors.