I’m curious about the experience of reading Marx from our users for whom English is their second language. For me as a native English speaker… I love reading Marx but the language feels so arcane at times. I mean, he rarely uses words I don’t understand, but the context in which he uses them often eludes me. It’s almost like he uses to many words when a briefer sentence would be more effective, at least to a modern audience. It’s nowhere near the experience of say reading Shakespeare, which I can’t do without some sort of modern guide. But I feel like the language is challenging enough that it’s a barrier to some people.

So I’m curious if the experience is similar in other languages (especially curious about German).

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    1 year ago

    The Reddit meme about how easy German because “le Concatenation, just mash words and works” vs the reality of learning all sorts of complex stuff.