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In translating the Canterbury Tales, the translator strives to maintain the original meaning while also capturing the poetic rhythm and sounds of Chaucer's verse. This balance ensures that the modern English version remains faithful to the text's linguistic and stylistic qualities.
"Get up and bar the door" is already Modern English.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English, which was the common spoken and written language in England during the late 14th century. Middle English is distinct from older forms of the language like Old English and from the modern form of English that we use today.
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"Middle English" is a subset of English. Middle English is the type of English spoken in Chaucer's time, as in _The Canterbury Tales_. English is a language as a whole, but over time, the dialect has changed from Old English, the dialect spoken in _Beowulf_, to Middle English, the dialect spoken in Chaucer's time, in _The Canterbury Tales_, to Modern English, the dialect spoken in Shakespeare's time, in _Hamlet_, to today's English, the dialect I'm writing in right now.
Yes, it is true that Chaucer's writings, particularly "The Canterbury Tales," are considered to provide examples of English in transition from Middle English to Modern English. Chaucer's works reflect changes in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling that show the evolution of the English language during that time period.
It was written in a version of English that is now called old modern English. As a rough guide: any English that you can actually read is modern English. If it's a bit difficult to read it's old modern English. Shakespeare too wrote in old modern English but it wasn't old when he was writing. Obviously. Remember that Shakespeare was writing to please the masses and he had much the objectives and pressures as any present day scriptwriter. The committee that translated the King James Bible were trying to make the word of God available to all English speakers. There is also middle English e.g. Chaucer. and Old English or Anglo Saxon which the English developed from about 500 to 1100AD. Then it gradually evolved to Middle English.
If you are reading Grapes of Wrath, sarten = certain.