Hey this is neat... Shakespeare invented 1700 commonly used words.

[djheater]

I knew he invented a bunch but geez check out some of these...



<< The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined...


academe accused addiction advertising amazement
arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom
beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained
barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer
caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded
compromise courtship countless critic dauntless
dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged
dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement
exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed
frugal generous gloomy gossip green-eyed
gust hint hobnob hurried impede
impartial invulnerable jaded label lackluster
laughable lonely lower luggage lustrous
madcap majestic marketable metamorphize mimic
monumental moonbeam mountaineer negotiate noiseless
obscene obsequiously ode olympian outbreak
panders pedant premeditated puking radiance
rant remorseless savagery scuffle secure
skim milk submerge summit swagger torture
tranquil undress unreal varied vaulting
worthless zany
>>

found at this site

 

[b0mbrman]

Interesting...so I guess putting dialogue into iambic pentameter isn't a *huge* deal when you consider he made up all these words to make it all fit

 

[aphex]

I never knew that... interesting...

 

[ElFenix]

and he did it all to sell beer with raunchyness too!

 

[Renob]

Shakepeare thats Shakespeares little brother?

 

[djheater]

<< Interesting...so I guess putting dialogue into iambic pentameter isn't a *huge* deal when you consider he made up all these words to make it all fit >>



NO, NO that's what made him truly a genius... all these other guys wer going around trying to find the right words and failing Shakespeare said.."fvck it they'll figure it out". That rocks.