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

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[–] 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    English will never recover from this!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    If you need a pithy insult, go here

    EDIT: ... and it's down. :p

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  • 4 comments in c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    He’s so woke.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I always figured it was due to vulgar culture not usually leaving written records prior to that.

    So we get 37 plays written as popular culture, it makes sense that we get a lot of newly attested words used in the popular culture of the day.

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  • Hello Smeagol!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Man, have you read that? Not surprised he was making shit up. Lol

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  • 3 comments in c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works view that post
    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I like to imagine he invented them all in one play and that the first people to watch his play were confused as fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Heh, I just watched this episode tonight. Kid is finally old enough to appreciate Andor so I'm running it back.

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