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ProfessorGAC

(64,960 posts)

11. We're Different

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 05:22 PM

Oct 2021

I've seen a few productions and enjoyed them.
I read a few plays and found it miserable reading.
I get your love of language evolution, and appreciate that. But, that sounds like an interest entered voluntarily (like you mostly did).
I dig etymology myself, but reading the plays? Nope.
Now some of his poetry is pretty pleasant reading, even though I'm not big into poetry. But, the plays? Not for me.

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Can I get schools to ban Othello? [View all] tulipsandroses Oct 2021 OP

The play or the game? Nt Bantamfancier Oct 2021 #1

Didn't even know there was a game tulipsandroses Oct 2021 #4

Prolly. elleng Oct 2021 #2

Please forgive me. I know that I'm sometimes too much of a purist about the English language and.... EarnestPutz Oct 2021 #7

A language that doesn't evolve is a dead language EYESORE 9001 Oct 2021 #23

I've got to agree with Earnest. "Prolly" is English "devolving" rather than evolving. RussellCattle Oct 2021 #25

How darest thee? meadowlander Oct 2021 #26

How about Paradise Lost, required reading in AP HS class...nt wcmagumba Oct 2021 #3

Thanks for the detailed information. Nt USALiberal Oct 2021 #5

Miscegenation Zorro Oct 2021 #6

What, then, would there be to complain about? EYESORE 9001 Oct 2021 #24

Makes me wonder wryter2000 Oct 2021 #8

Not Saying Ban... ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #9

The value of reading Shakespeare is to understand some of the origins Ocelot II Oct 2021 #10

We're Different ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #11

I'm weird, too. Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #13

By yourself it may be difficult. taxi Oct 2021 #12

Thanks for all the responses. My apologies tulipsandroses Oct 2021 #14

But hasn't it been done? treestar Oct 2021 #19

Really. And how about Taming of the Shrew? ms liberty Oct 2021 #15

I mean... greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #16

Hard to say. Are you a loud-mouthed, annoying, entitled, white shithead? 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #17

A professor in Michigan got in trouble for showing the 1965 Laurence Olivier version ripcord Oct 2021 #18

Best get rid of Heart of Darkness by Conrad too. BlackSkimmer Oct 2021 #20

It's your civic duty to at least try!!11! panader0 Oct 2021 #21

Should we ban the Bible for the sake of the children? keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #22