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- Unr3a1, on 10/11/2007, -15/+135I can't believe it. This submitter was so lazy that he decided to use "Title says it all." in his description without an it or any signs of punctuation or capitalism. What has digg come too?
- dw2005, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55Shakespeare invented "Service Temporarily Unavailable" !?
Wow -- he was ahead of his time - ilkeryoldas, on 10/11/2007, -4/+51title doesnt says it all.. write a proper description
- bobertf, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21Capitalism?
- m0nk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Bleh, blog-spam. Here's the direct link to the entire list:
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeare_words_phrases.htm - DirtySnachez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16=/= != !=
- matthewmatic, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20first recorded usage =/= invented
- utcursch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare&oldid=138803189#List_of_Words_first_used_by_Shakespeare
- celeronxl, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Clearly submitter will not be inventing any words any time soon.
- mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Technically, if you complain over and over again then that doesn't make you lazy. Just very persistent.
- Frecklefoot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9FTA: "It is disappointing that we are taught that there is a word for everything"
Well, back when The Bard was around, there were a lot fewer words, so it only stands to reason that a few hadn't been crafted yet! - AmunRa666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+72 x: Capitalism?
noun
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
[Origin: 1850–55; capital1 + -ism] - ivosilva, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I see what you did there.
- Wolfboy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9I can't believe it! The submitter was so lazy that he decided to link to a thieving blogger instead of the source! What has Digg come to?
This list cribbed from: http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm
That site says Shakespeare invented some words. Others are borrowed from other languages. Some may have been in use, but we just don't have a record of it before Shakespeare. - AmunRa666, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8meaning and saying are two different things, especailly when there is an edit feature.
- estvir, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Well, I guess the next step would be simply putting 'tsa.'
- archlich, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6≠
- apologeticus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8he meant "capitalization."
- 0gleth0rpe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Agreed, this is growing into a pet peeve of mine.
If you're that lazy, you could have just copied part of that first paragraph; "William (after the one and only William Gates of course) invented over 1700 of the words we use commonly use, by simply turning nouns into verbs, adjectives into verbs, and so forth.." - matthewmatic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5if =/= != != then what does =/= =?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Hey let me invent a word.
*****. - mmockett, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4coming*
- CarolJude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Does anyone know of a list that also has each word's original source (i.e. which play or sonnet?) It's interesting to see, but it's even more interesting to read the debut of each word.
- Gella321, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Don't let anyone in my office read this. I never want to see "deliverable" in the dictionary.
- airstrike, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4That's what digg 'has come too'.
- vern01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Proof?
- monkeymagnus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3to*
- supremesonic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I find it even more depressing (And ironic?) that it's with a story about Shakespeare as well... One of the most influential people in the history of the English language.
I'm going to cry in a corner now. - Feener, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3All those words and they're all entirely cromulent.
- Darkness123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Does this mean he owns them? and we could get charged for using them?
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Article buried for "title says all"
- leadx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Shakespeare rocks... Once you've read a few plays and understand the language he's the greatest.
Sex, murder, torture, drugs.... he had it all. Greatest stories ever told, and based on lots of contemporary works. - psychephage, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm pretty sure that the list is either inaccurate, or the word 'invent' is used incorrectly. I'm not a linguist, but I know that the word obscene has it's roots in the phrase "ob skene" (ob SKAY-nay) which literally means "off stage." The phrase was used to describe violent or sexual scenes which were in a play, but occurred off stage so as not to upset the patrons. The phrase "ob skene" was used long before Shakespeare. He may have used the more modern version of that phrase, but he surely didn't "invent" it. I would be willing to bet that there are other words like that on this list.
- Novagenesis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Many words and phrases were invented to be a slightly different meaning or feel than a word that already existed. English was not exactly an early language, wherein base concepts may not have already had words.
No, indeed, Shakespeare felt the words that fit the descriptions of what needed saying were simply not -good- enough. We have a lot more words than we used to, sure, and those words were created by people with no more inherent mastery of the English language than a modern script kiddie...
I have a feeling "U" is going to become official slang, which will be made into a real word within the next 20 years. And who am I to be against that? - CAPSLOCKISCOOL, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5dont forget "puke"
- capiCrimm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@bobertf
capitalism is everywhere. - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5A small correction.
He have not ‘invented’ these words, he borrowed them from another languages. For example, ‘bandit’ comes from Italian ‘bandito’ (to band together). It’s clearly NOT invented by Shakespear.
The same goes for ‘accused’ (it’s borrowed from Latin ‘acusio’), torture (torture), etc. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3EVER!!!
- guerrilla_suit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Snoop Dogg invented more.
- khellendros1984, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It was all Sir Francis Bacon ^_~
- BlackMagic2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Well, there are piles and piles of literatue and miles of written text stating GODS existence, but just because people SAY God exists, doesn't mean he does :/
- Shakermaker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2RTFA - it's already in there....
- darny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"If you _______, then you obviously haven't been here very long."
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"he is arguably the greatest playwright ever"
I don't think anyone is arguing over this point. - steelese, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I am a writer. I have studied Shakespeare. I have read most of these lines. The only thing we can say for certain about any of these words is that he was the first to record them. I have had this argument so many times that I come prepared with a perfect example.
400 hundred years from now, when the evil Google empire is overthrown, and no one knows who or what they were anymore, the verb 'to google' will still be in use. They will go back through the literature and maybe find some remaining tech article. Most of the old literature has been lost in the destructive nature of time. The article is from WIRED magazine. People will then claim that WIRED invented the verb 'to google.' WIRED did not invent, nor could anyone pinpoint its exact inception. That is the beauty of language. We don't know, nor will we ever, it just is and exists. (Not to get all Chompskyian on anyone)
We are make too large an assumption based on too little evidence. Induction rarely works, and can be overgeneralized. Please don't make statements when there is no other proof than your assumption - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is incredibly misleading.
Shakespeare did not invent any of these words. Most of these words have existed in languages like French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin for hundreds or thousands of years. What Shakespeare did was he took those words from those foreign languages, slightly changed their composition (prefix, suffix, etc), and made them sound English. If you look at most English words in the dictionary, you'll see that their origin is frequently from another language. That's the same exact thing as here.
This kind of adoption of the words from other languages has existed since the beginning of human speech. This is the reason why so many cultures have an extremely similar-sounding word for "Milk", or "Mother", and many other things like that. Shakespeare's accomplishment is that he's one of the very few people who we can personally IDENTIFY as having done this. In the past (and even modern day), it's mostly been done by anonymous traders and travelers, and other such people who we have no historical knowledge of. - Scheissen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm burying all articles that have ***** descriptions and this is by far the *****.
- Cenobite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It embiggens even the smallest man.
- TheLD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Most of our words come from Latin though.
- golfovividor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Title says it all... about the lazyness of the author
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