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Shakespeare is DESTROYING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😭 Early Modern Period (~1600 AD) (media.piefed.social)

submitted 7 months ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historymemes@piefed.social

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

What 1700 words? I assume you mean completely valid latin base words that just didn't happen to be in most dictionaries at the time.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 9 points 7 months ago*

What 1700 words? I assume you mean completely valid latin base words that just didn’t happen to be in most dictionaries at the time.

Most words weren't, as the first English dictionaries were only just being written.

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