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To: Conserev1

I heard an English professor on the radio yesterday say that Shakespeare would be more at home with American English than he would be with the English spoken in Stratford today.


26 posted on 07/04/2013 9:48:00 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

“Was he an American English professor or an English English professor?”
Bette


48 posted on 07/04/2013 9:54:27 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: DManA

I have an English friend I cannot understand. The phone you might as well forget it. In person is hard enough!


79 posted on 07/04/2013 10:24:32 AM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: DManA
I heard an English professor on the radio yesterday say that Shakespeare would be more at home with American English than he would be with the English spoken in Stratford today.

Wonder how Shakespeare would do with ebonics.

Gather round bro's and ho's, phatties and shorties, the ebonics guide to shakespeare.... act one scene one begins next time at the westside welfare office where young men walk with canes and swaggar

106 posted on 07/04/2013 1:48:30 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.")
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