Shakespeare is DESTROYING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😭

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Shakespeare is DESTROYING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😭
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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.

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.

https://elizabethandrama.org/shakespeare-invented-words-project/master-list-invented-words/



English will never recover from this!


If you need a pithy insult, go here

EDIT: … and it’s down. :p


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He’s so woke.


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.



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


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