Shakespeare?

partyatmygaff · 10-12-2009 11:47PM #1

Its pretty much guaranteed anyone who did Higher level english has done some type of shakespearean play. So,
With thineselfs own capabilites, art thou emblesséd with skill and facility so refined that thou can read english of many moons past?

If you didn't get that question, I'll just take no for the answer.
:pac:

So in em modern english, can you understand shakespeare without needing to ask what every sentence means?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 10-12-2009 11:49PM

I'm learning modern day German - it's pretty much the same thing.

"Can I, a beer have, fair barkeep?"

admiralofthefleet · 10-12-2009 11:49PM

huh?

partyatmygaff · 10-12-2009 11:50PM

Nay

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

huh?

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TouchingVirus · 10-12-2009 11:50PM

I usually get the general thing he's trying to convey, but the subtleties are lost on me. Sometimes I'm completely baffled.

So I don't read shakespeare and haven't since the LC

Spore · 10-12-2009 11:50PM

Get thee to a nunnery

SoWatchaWant · 10-12-2009 11:51PM

Yup.

Example:

"William Shakespeare"

becomes:

"William filthy euphemism".

TouchingVirus · 10-12-2009 11:51PM

partyatmygaff wrote: »

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Fill in the *'s :P

Kiera · 10-12-2009 11:51PM

Nay

Can understand it no problem as i did a few Shakespeare plays in school. But that doesnt stop me thinking its a load of ****.

phasers · 10-12-2009 11:52PM

Yay verily

TouchingVirus · 10-12-2009 11:52PM

I would vote, but there is no Atari Jaguar option

davyjose · 10-12-2009 11:53PM

King Lear was awesome. A masterpiece. Hamlet was a let-down tbh.

wudangclan · 10-12-2009 11:53PM

Nay

Kiera wrote: »

Can understand it no problem as i did a few Shakespeare plays in school. But that doesnt stop me thinking its a load of ****.

phasers wrote: »

Yay verily

Go way,ya pair of philistines.

partyatmygaff · 10-12-2009 11:54PM

Nay

davyjose wrote: »

King Lear was awesome. A masterpiece. Hamlet was a let-down tbh.

Hamlet is pretty damn good. Never read king lear though.

partyatmygaff · 10-12-2009 11:55PM

Nay

wudangclan wrote: »

Go way,ya pair of philistines.

Gentlemen, A knave is he.

:pac:

DenMan · 10-12-2009 11:55PM

Just finished King Lear and am currently studying The Tempest. I love Shakespeare.

Wazdakka · 10-12-2009 11:57PM

Nay

<_<

>_>

MACBETH

phasers · 10-12-2009 11:57PM

DenMan wrote: »

Just finished King Lear and am currently studying The Tempest. I love Shakespeare.

Congratulations

Latchy · 10-12-2009 11:58PM

I can quote Shakespeare '' alas dear Yoric I knew his ma well '' but like the general masses , I aint very Shakespearean ..no

Dudess · 10-12-2009 11:58PM

Haven't read Shakespeare since school - presume I'd need to have much of it translated for me.

jumpguy · 10-12-2009 11:59PM

Nay

I've got to learn off quotes for his plays constantly for two years nows, and have the prospect of a year more. He's not right at all, he can't spell anything properly! And don't get me started on his grammar...

markok84 · 11-12-2009 12:00AM

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Columbia · 11-12-2009 12:02AM

I'm doing a PhD, half of which is to do with Shakespeare. Yes, I can understand him...mostly

I'd say Hamlet is my favourite, but The Winters Tale is well up there too.

davyjose · 11-12-2009 12:02AM

markok84 wrote: »

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Yeah well, I once tried reading Darwin ... ended up fcuking a monkey.

jumpguy · 11-12-2009 12:03AM

Nay

markok84 wrote: »

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Yeah thank God evolution has brought us modern English.

partyatmygaff · 11-12-2009 12:04AM

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

I've got to learn off quotes for his plays constantly for two years nows, and have the prospect of a year more. He's not right at all, he can't spell anything properly! And don't get me started on his grammar...

Tut tut. Someone has obviously been affected by lolcats.

/Heh its spelling/grammar nazism but then again this is a thread about english >_>

jumpguy · 11-12-2009 12:05AM

Nay

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Tut tut. Someone has obviously been affected by lolcats.

/Heh its spelling/grammar nazism but then again this is a thread about english >_>

What's wrong with "spell" and "grammar"?

Mardy Bum · 11-12-2009 12:07AM

Try Chaucer, Shakespeare is primary school english compared with this man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales

brummytom · 11-12-2009 12:08AM

Nay

Course I can.

My main gripe with Shakespearian plays is that he was from the Midderlunnns.. he most likely had a Brummy accent instead of the toff the pillocks now speak with. Talk normally! Use his words but don't say it like you've got a plum up your arse.

Anyway, yeah, easy to understand

partyatmygaff · 11-12-2009 12:11AM

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

What's wrong with "spell" and "grammar"?

nows

Thats verging on lolspk. :pac:

Intothesea · 11-12-2009 12:12AM

Nay

Shakespeare? Haile to the Kinge, babay :pac:

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