Wow, where to start? First, if we are going to involve the Bard in a conversation piece, we will need to sound clever. So here goes: “Linguistics twisted and contorted still remain quintessentially communication at its base form.”
There, we did it, we constructed a sentence with enough familiar words to have you half understand what we are saying and we threw in a few ‘elaborate’ ones to sound all ‘clever like’.
Confused? Well, that’s the point, silly!
However, before we kill the English language…
Let’s get back to our top 10 Shakespeare sayings in no particular order:
1) Fight fire with fire
2) Knock, knock! Who’s there?
3) Break the ice
4) Come what may
5) What’s done is done
6) Naked truth
7) Too much of a good thing
8) Wild goose chase
9) The game is up
10) The world is my oyster
Some more…
Obviously these did not make our top 10, but they may be in yours.
Send him packing
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Lie low
Full circle
So-so
Baited breath
Breathed his last
Out of the jaws of death
Love is blind
Good riddance
Heart of gold
Makes your hair stand on end
Green-eyed monster
Dead as a door nail
Laughing stock
And lastly, we leave you with this thought to ponder: Shakespeare was renowned for his writing, considered a master of the English language, and yet he was forced at times to invent new words to do justice to his thoughts, poems and plays. So in this day, to emulate his greatness, you would need to do the same. You would need to bastardise the language, create words out of thin air and dare we say, talk gibberish at times. So the next time you hear an awful rap song, remember, you could be listening to the next Shakespeare.
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