tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53801551587071054.post5819703416704653095..comments2024-03-22T11:23:36.792-07:00Comments on Fictiffous: Are Classics Age-Proof?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641608488926357864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53801551587071054.post-25229333982186106352012-05-16T06:56:45.369-07:002012-05-16T06:56:45.369-07:00I agree that we're not losing anything. Conte...I agree that we're not losing anything. Contemporary writers still read the classics--and that's definitely the case if they major in English. But it's okay if our great contemporary writers don't sound anything like Twain or Melville because language changes. And it's perfectly natural to do so. Otherwise, we'd all be running around saying, "þæt wæs god cyning!" It's these writers, poets, and novelists who help us gauge how quickly and to what degree formal writing is changing. Look only to teh Interwebs to see how the spoken language changes.JDomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15365762361542305911noreply@blogger.com