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Shakespeare Anglicized about 2,500 words that we still commonly use today. He got them from Latin, Greek, Old English, French, Italian, and German. Many words, like the name "Jessica," he straight up invented because the dictionary hadn't been invented yet and you could get away with that sort of fuckery.
Happy 454th, Willie!
AnotherStrangerOnTheInternet
Don't forget "assassin"
sinaloasam
Nice historically accurate use of Samuel Johnson meme.
AboxofSoap
How I feel when I listen to Aesop Rock
Flyndaran
Just because his plays are our first recorded examples of words does not mean he invented them. Audiences had to understand him.
TheUsernameChecksIn
GadenKerensky
Last time I saw this, there was a reminder that Shakespeare didn't invent all these words. Some, maybe, but they weren't written until him.
AdmJota
Admittedly, we don't know that he *invented* all of them. Other people might have been using them, but just didn't write them down. Or 1/2
AdmJota
they wrote them down, but nobody cared and just threw it out, because they weren't William Shakespeare. 2/2
klj126
Old repost
tzxAzrael
just a thought; Samuel Johnson lived 200 years AFTER Shakespeare. but he's still "surprised" by some of these words? ok then...
justushandyman5
KingDomino
Also, fart.
Okebel
What's funny is that the other guy, Samuel Johnson, is considered a greater contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Whozdatgrl
Today I learned my name is a fancy Shakespearean word.
JDOT667
copingcabana
If Shakespeare wrote in Latin, we'd call it a "fiftybow."
masterand
All words are made up words
xmaneds
MoxxRavenmane
Yeah, it's not like there is a word tree, where you pick words off of. (Or is there??)
Kvothefefe
apolloscrewedmeover
+1 why don't they teach things like this initially to get younger students more involved in Shakespeare. I know I would have been
Rip42
Because it's mostly lies. They're memes not a reference book. I'd take this into mind when you see those "true facts" dumps as well.
apolloscrewedmeover
I'm sorry I should have stated not this post exactly. All I meant that I wish my teachers used interesting antidotes when studying a subject
Rip42
The problem with anecdotes is they're often apocryphal.
demonhawk
He was the rapper of his times.
Izriel
Raper.
Blazinghand
The word "elbow" existed in those days. People were aware of the bendy bit on you arm. The novel thing Shakespeare did was use it as a verb.
ethelraed
Upvote for scholarship
kakivara
Also, and I'm no meteorologist so don't quote me, but I don't think "Jessica" is in the dictionary.
Retromorphic
What as in "I'll elbow your anus until it bleeds" like that?
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
More like Oh Romeo from which anus doth thine Elbow bleedeth because of?
Phyrkrakr
Truly, Shakespeare was honorificabilitudinitatibus
Lassannn
"Love's Labours Lost," if you were wondering.
LemonDropmgs
Left out Assassin
jhawker27
I seriously doubt nobody had named elbows before Shakespeare.
Idsertian
Ah yes, but he never came up with expressing your most sincere contrafibularities.
707isL0Lupsidedown
Would make for some good Orange County chopper meme
limeyptwo
Fuck you lasssann
Lassannn
https://media.giphy.com/media/oBPOP48aQpIxq/giphy.gif
annamalnomster
I don't remember why we hate this guy
BedBatmanBeyond
Something to do with Linda I think
Dongskanker
If I remember correctly, he is the repost master. Everything he posts is a repost.
annamalnomster
Ahh okay. Fair enough.
Cryolith
I also know words.
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SchoolsUndefiable
Misaka misaka says with anger in her voice
NotACop1515IsMyAgeNotACop
Shit piss fuck cunt cock sucker mother fuck piss fart turd and twat. I fucked your moooooooom
RoseTheSpecialEdTeacher
Ah, the Blink 182 song that got me banned from WoW so many years ago.
MrMerr
souse Railgun/Magic Index
DontTalkToMeOrMyWaifuEverAgain
Pretty sure this particular scene came form Railgun
malcolmisamazing
J M Barrie invented the name Wendy after a child of one of his friends asked Barrie to be her ‘fwiendy’.
cyberjazz
They're good words Brent
Totono
Exactly what I was thinking
theyregooddogsbrant
Gotcha
skipweasel
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
thethreadyoupullthatunravelsyourwholesweater
Are those the lyrics from that Ciara song?
Retromorphic
Well done. You deserve a holiday...... Did you enjoy it?
UnhelpfulAnswers
Cease this fuckery
schrodingersasymmetric12gauge
Embiggens is a perfectly cromulent word.
WeaselBandit
Wrong reference... Still good though..
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Let me fetch you an upvote, I shall return before you can say Antidisestablishmentarianism
WeaselBandit
Antidesmimbly mindy manarinism
TehStoner
Your frenetic fuckery has me discombobulated
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
An excellent reference. I must offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
WeaselBandit
We have an Imgurian so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a skipweasel!
KevinBhall
good old slackbladder
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Thicky old adder thicky can't write for toffee butler thicky.
OverlyComplicatedExplanations
"Once there was a happy little sausage called Baldrick, and he lived happily ever after"
bazingabiatch
Sausage?!?! Blast my eyes
RaptorBro
SAUSAGE!!
Zurgalon
I offer skipweasel my most enthusiastic
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Damn those contrafibularities!
skipweasel
I'm glad someone got there!
Zurgalon
Love blackadder, shame it only had 4 seasons.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
And a christmas special, and a Movie.
skipweasel
Well....at least it never got stale like so many long-running series. They got better and better right up to the bitter end.
Zurgalon
Very powerful ending.