>>715430870>so what the fuck is that supposed to meanIt was a test to test whether students were actually able to read the assigned texts in the courses, turns out they were either guessing the meaning of whatever they were reading, skipped sections they didn't understand or generally were unable to understand that it was a long way of saying that London is muddy shithole.
If someone asked you to do this on the spot even proficient english native readers might struggle, however those are college majors that were given all the necessary tools to complete the task.
There's also the fact that to understand the text you need to have some general and specific knowledge about the period of time when the text was written, if people lack that they couldn't possibly understand the biblical references and so on.
more funnies here https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24401551