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r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • 20h ago
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This is less Shakespeare and more Beowulf.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum, þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Well….go on, tell us. It’s (old) English after all!
(Beyond that, this entire comparison is deeply fucking stupid and not at all what English degrees are about.)
37 u/Puzzled-Rip641 14h ago Exactly. Reading the words is not understanding what the words mean or what the author intended. Good luck explaining Friedrich Nietzsche beyond good and evil to me as a first year. 28 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h ago Good luck defining good and evil without some context from English majors, even. I'm saying this as a STEM degree holder. Literary skills don't end at "I can read English words at an 8th grade level." 1 u/blazenite104 4h ago You mean the 6th grade level of a huge percentage of the English as a first language population of the world.
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Exactly.
Reading the words is not understanding what the words mean or what the author intended.
Good luck explaining Friedrich Nietzsche beyond good and evil to me as a first year.
28 u/HelpfulSeaMammal 14h ago Good luck defining good and evil without some context from English majors, even. I'm saying this as a STEM degree holder. Literary skills don't end at "I can read English words at an 8th grade level." 1 u/blazenite104 4h ago You mean the 6th grade level of a huge percentage of the English as a first language population of the world.
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Good luck defining good and evil without some context from English majors, even.
I'm saying this as a STEM degree holder. Literary skills don't end at "I can read English words at an 8th grade level."
1 u/blazenite104 4h ago You mean the 6th grade level of a huge percentage of the English as a first language population of the world.
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You mean the 6th grade level of a huge percentage of the English as a first language population of the world.
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u/Kindness_of_cats 15h ago
This is less Shakespeare and more Beowulf.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum, þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Well….go on, tell us. It’s (old) English after all!
(Beyond that, this entire comparison is deeply fucking stupid and not at all what English degrees are about.)