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Quote by: Isherwood  Shakespeare used very proper grammar for his time. His contemporaries had no problem understanding his words. This is not true regarding your posts.
How do you know what we'd do? Such a book doesn't exist, so I don't see how you can make a prediction based on it.
You'd be better off asking how Jabberwocky became a classic poem despite its incomprehensibility. I suggest had not Lewis Carroll written it, it wouldn't have survived in popular literature. Jabberwocky |
Perhaps. But I've always liked the poem because it used enough real words for you to know what was going on, and because you could usually figure out the invented words by the sound of them.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6