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by saltcured 117 days ago
I would prefer to see a version that was skillfully translated to modern orthography so that we could appreciate shifts in vocabulary and grammar.

To me, it is nearly like trying to look at a picture book of fashion but the imagery is degraded as you go back. I'd like to see the time-traveler's version with clean digital pictures of every era...

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so replace the long s with just s and the thorn (รพ) with th? others?
Replace "that thing that looks like a 3" with, eh, "gh" I think.

(Sorry, can't recall for sure, returning to this thread a couple days after reading TFA.)