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[#Phonepunk#]

It’s sad how dumbed down language has become. Look at us trying to understand this stuff like morons.

 

[pauljeremiah]

It helps tremendously to see them in play form as intended.

100% this. I have seen the majority of Shakespeare’s play performed and it makes a huge difference. The National Theatre always does fantastic productions of Shakespeare’s work.

 

[MrS]

Avaunt, you curs

 

[Stouffers]

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? ... I donot bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. SAMPSON. No, sir, I'm not biting my thumb at you, but I am biting my thumb.

 

[Airola]

It’s sad how dumbed down language has become. Look at us trying to understand this stuff like morons.

To be honest though, Shakespeare wouldn't understand us either. We'd be laughing like, haha what an og boomer moron. And he'd be all like "what? i don't understand! please, let me understand!" Or "Whathe? I donthe understandth thou! Pleaseth, letteth me understandth!"

 

[jason10mm]

Supposedly elizabethian english (or whatever Shakespeare era brits spoke) sounds more like a New England accent than the nasally accent brits have today. The colonists preserved the accent while England moved on.

So imagine Shakespeare being done by hard core Bostonians.....

 

[Tesseract]

It’s sad how dumbed down language has become. Look at us trying to understand this stuff like morons.

fucking travesty

i enjoy reading longer formats wherever possible

 

[Tranquil]

I tried watching the one with Mel Gibson in it, lasted about 5 minutes. It was all gobbledygook

 

[edbrat]

frickin philistines don't deserve Shakespeare

 

[Dai Kaiju]

I’m with you OP. I couldn‘t grasp the old English back in high school and I doubt I would do much better today. It was frustrating to see everyone else read it without any difficulty.

Nowadays, should anyone bring up Shakespeare, I’m like.”Yeah, I read Hamlet and Macbeth and thought they freaking sucked. The guy‘s overrated.”. It’s much easier to crap on a literary genius than it is to admit you weren’t quite smart enough to appreciate his work...and I’m okay with that.