Modernism being a movement of the early twentieth century, it would actually make sense if Early Modern was the nineteenth. But if we were that logical, something would have to be done about us.
Early Modern English is English in its transitional state. It's not Middle English anymore, but it's not quite Modern English either. It has artifacts of Middle English--bits of declensions, bits of conjugations--but it's recognizably not the language that Chaucer or the Gawain poet was writing.
I think it is one of the most beautifully flexible examples of language as an instrument there will ever be. But if you pointed out I was biased, I would not say you were wrong.
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Date: 2006-04-27 03:32 am (UTC)Early Modern English is English in its transitional state. It's not Middle English anymore, but it's not quite Modern English either. It has artifacts of Middle English--bits of declensions, bits of conjugations--but it's recognizably not the language that Chaucer or the Gawain poet was writing.
I think it is one of the most beautifully flexible examples of language as an instrument there will ever be. But if you pointed out I was biased, I would not say you were wrong.