Ye Olde vs Modern English

Ye Olde vs Modern English

Olde samples via Jane Austen

“It is more than I engage for, I assure you.”__________________“Huh-uh.”

“Dare I say my eye might have misjudged the possibility?”________“Really?”

“I see no occasion for that.”_____________________________“Whaaa?”

“That is not an unnatural surmise.”________________________“Maybe.”

“Upon my honour I have not the smallest of objections.”__________“Oh. Okay.”

— Why i dont read the classics



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