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I read a story in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespea... that talked about the original pronunciation of the Early Modern English in Shakespeare's plays. How hearing it in the original pronunciation brought out the puns and rhymes.

"I will never be able to do Pattern Matching in Java that'd look at least remotely sane, but in majority of cases I can also live with it."

Many of us have only experienced the Bard in a modern pronunciation and have enjoyed it greatly. We can live with it, but I cannot help but think that I am missing something. It seems very much like what you miss from using the programming language closest to your thoughts and the tools that go with it.

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And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.'