The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

's readers ' poll and placed in the top five in the electric-jazz category in Modern Drummer's readers ' polls.

Modern operating systems usually have an Application Programming Interface to help screen readers obtain this information, such as UI Automation ( UIA ) for Microsoft Windows or AT-SPI for GNOME.

Modern readers of the Black Proposal may gain insight into a world that no longer exists.

Modern scholars and readers have criticized the book for what are seen as condescending racist descriptions of the book's black characters, especially with regard to the characters ' appearances, speech, and behavior, as well as the passive nature of Uncle Tom in accepting his fate.

Modern readers and translators have used various nicknames to keep track of the many characters.

Modern readers may think it likely that a teenaged couple sharing a bed and legally married to each other would also engage in sexual intercourse, particularly since Catherine and Arthur understood the production of heirs as a pressing and essential duty.

The novel was included on Times 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Some Modern Orthodox leaders have held that women can serve as public Megillah readers.

Fowler objected to this passage because The Emperor, His Majesty, and the Monarch all refer to the same person: " the effect ", he pointed out in Modern English Usage, " is to set readers wondering what the significance of the change is, only to conclude that there is none.

Other sections include " Modern Guru ", which features humorous columnists including Danny Katz responding to the everyday dilemmas of readers ; a Samurai Sudoku ; and " The Two Of Us ", containing interviews with a pair of close friends, relatives or colleagues.

* In 2007, readers ’ polls from both Modern Drummer and Drum!

Modern handheld barcode readers are operated in wireless networks according to IEEE 802. 11g ( WLAN ) or IEEE 802. 15. 1 ( Bluetooth ).

Modern readers question whether the Deipnosophistae genuinely evokes a literary symposium of learned disquisitions on a range of subjects suitable for such an occasion, or whether it has a satirical edge, rehashing the cultural clichés of the urbane literati of its day.

Peter Lawford's first leading role came in Son of Lassie ( 1945 ) and he later won a Modern Screen magazine readers ' poll as the most popular actor in Hollywood of 1946.

The massive volume, a Modern Library Giant, introduced many readers to science fiction when it appeared on library shelves during the post-WWII years.

Modern editions are inevitably variable, changing a variety of spelling, grammar, and / or pronouns for the convenience of readers of modern English.

" With the help of a professor, he conducted an online experiment and found that Comic Sans, in comparison to five other fonts ( Baskerville, Helvetica, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, and Computer Modern ), makes readers slightly less likely to believe that a statement they are reading is true.

Each year Modern Drummer magazine publishes the results of its readers poll, which highlights top drummers spanning all genres of music and inducts one drummer into the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame.

Modern readers often draw parallels between these and modern stereotypes of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sexual identities.

Modern readers of English are generally able to understand texts written in the late phase of the Early Modern English period ( e. g. the first edition of the King James Bible and the works of William Shakespeare ), while texts from the earlier phase ( such as Le Morte d ' Arthur ) may present more difficulties.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.

Modern definitions are concerned with the fundamental chemical reactions common to all acids.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery

Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.

Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.