From The Pardusian Chronicles
a0a0 This review is from: Just read the preivous review (about simplifying' the language in Jungle Book). I am reading the ORIGINAL text JB to my eight year old son (for over a week now), and he's not once indicated that the language puzzles him. He did ask me why Mowgli uses thee and thou and wouldst while talking with the animals, but accepted my explanation without demur. Reminds me of the lines from an Elinor Wylie poem Our mutable tongue is like the sea Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit; Dangle in strings of sand shall he Who smooths the ripples out of it. Say it out loud, and feel what it does to your mouth and face that's what Kipling's prose does.
