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Discussion Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: rachel on March 19, 2020, 11:26:17 am
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Apparently Shakespeare invented over 1700 words or at least used them for the first time in a recorded piece of literature. What's your favorite?
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/words-shakespeare-invented/
accommodation aerial amazement apostrophe assassination auspicious baseless bloody bump
castigate changeful clangor control (noun) countless courtship critic critical dexterously
dishearten dislocate dwindle eventful exposure fitful frugal generous gloomy gnarled hurry
impartial inauspicious indistinguishable invulnerable lapse laughable lonely majestic misplaced
monumental multitudinous obscene palmy perusal pious premeditated radiance reliance road
sanctimonious seamy sportive submerge suspicious
I think I'm gonna go with obscene. But seriously, how was road not a word???
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Also upstairs and downstairs, amongst a LOT of others. (Also, the site says that Shakespeare is the *first written record* we have of these words, and many were almost certainly in common usage before he used them.)
Also also, you didn't learn this stuff in middle school when you read your first Shakespeare plays?
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Also upstairs and downstairs, amongst a LOT of others. (Also, the site says that Shakespeare is the *first written record* we have of these words, and many were almost certainly in common usage before he used them.)
Also also, you didn't learn this stuff in middle school when you read your first Shakespeare plays?
I never paid attention in English class. That shit was boring as hell
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I loved English; it was the one subject outside of science in which I felt I had real talent. Not necessarily literature, per se (largely because many of the authors they had us read SUCKED; Nathaniel Hawthorne in particular was a horrible author and should be relegated to well-deserved obscurity), but I adored widening my lexicon, improving my eloquence, and generally finding new forms of linguistic expression.
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whenever someone gives me shit for using "fake words", i bring up shakespeare. shits splenderificous.