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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, give your kid a copy of AARP Magazine. It is recommended for ages 55 and up, so will be a stretch challenge for your genius child. [/quote]

Funniest post ive read here in a while.

Very sad to see tiger parenting reach the level where one would brag about their elementary school child reading Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, and other books with dark depressing themes. Oh but the books have big words! If your child is verbally gifted, let them do the NY Times crossword or read Anne of Green Gables. [/quote]

Basically all children's literature from the 19th century (heck, even Nancy Drew from the 40s) has more sophisticated language than most students read now.[/quote]

But what is the purpose of learning old English no longer used?    When writing i was always taught to simplify the language and not to use a $20 word when a 25 cent word was perfectly fine.

Court documents were being simplified years ago so that anyone with a with grade education can read them.   Too many insecure people want to be seen as so much more intelligent than the average guy that they would like to see old awkward language stay around.  [/quote]

By old english you mean english written hundreds of years ago, not Old English like what Beowulf was written in?

anyway, no, students should read old books so that they know how to read old language, not so that they will write like that. People should know how to read and understand literature like Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Shakespeare, etc. [/quote]

English is just trashy German Latin mashup. Unless you are reading, the original Classic works, it's lowbrow garbage. Some people are so low class they don't even attend Mass in Latin anymore. [/quote]

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