And chaucer , of course , is laughing at this over-refinement .
当然,乔叟是在笑话这些礼仪过分精细。
Banned in 1952 from being poetry consultant to the library of congress for his left-leaning views , williams wrote poems in which the rosenbergs appeared next to geoffrey chaucer .
Chaucer is often trotted out as an example of middle english because he was writing in english at a time when the french influence of the norman conquest had elbowed aside a number of the words from old english .
Other monuments include those of isaac newton , scores of statesmen , and poet 's corner , with memorials to centuries of authors including chaucer , shakespeare and dickens .
Spelling is in decline today , she thinks , not because of the rich diversity of dialects , as in chaucer 's day , but because the dominant mindset of nomadic culture is that language does not matter .
The english of geoffrey chaucer ( born in the 14th century ) , for example , is incomprehensible to modern laymen , whereas that of william shakespeare ( born in the 16th ) is not only comprehensible but held by some to be a model .