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RE: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
Subject:RE: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance From:MaggiRos <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:50:21 -0700 (PDT)
Shakespeare also introduced or invented a few words that
have never been used again. It was a time of extraordinary
flexibility in the language, such that when the rhythm of a
line required "dear" instead of "dearly" he cheerily used
it. Nobody was studying English grammar at the time, so who
was going to tell him no? :)
Maggie
Quoting Michael Strickland <Mstrickland -at- entriq -dot- com>:
>
> > If recollection serves, much of Will's wordsmithing
> contributed to the
> > evolution from Middle English to Modern English, as
> many words now extant
> > were created from whole cloth by the Bard himself.
>
Bruse added:
> Yes and no. He was the first to use a lot of words in
> print, but whether he was
> dazzling inventive or always had an ear open for a juicy
> new word is anybody's guess. Either way, he generally had
good taste. Some of the words coined in his day were best
forgotten.
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