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21060094 No.21060094 [Reply] [Original]

>talking to girl
>we stumble upon the topic of Shakespeare
>her: "I hate him honestly. His "word misuse" is so annoying. I hope his books get burned.
>also her: I love John Green!
Why are women so stupid? Why do they have the worst taste in writers? And most of all, WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE MEAN BY WORD MISUSE?

>> No.21060102

The tempest is nice

>> No.21060107

I mean, that's a girl you're talking about. What did you expect?

>> No.21060121

>>21060107
Right? She's just a wet hole, not sure why you're expecting Shakespeare expertise

>> No.21060687

>>21060094
Oh, I get it. You don't talk to girls and this is made up.

Not /lit/ related.

>> No.21061759

>>21060094
she's right
john green > Shakespeare
cope

>> No.21061766

>>21060094
Nigger, you should try talking to my brother-in-law

>> No.21062087

>>21060094
>>her: "I hate him honestly. His "word misuse" is so annoying. I hope his books get burned.
"Nice "quotation" marks, retard. Also, nobody talks like that.
>Why do [women] have the worst taste in writers?
You mean this made-up "girl?"
>WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE MEAN BY WORD MISUSE?
Why didn't you fucking ask her?
Either learn to write less obviously fake scenarios or learn how to fucking converse.
ESL

>> No.21062164

>>21060094
Read Timon of Athens

>> No.21062350

>>21060094
I'm at the point where I'd just call her an uncultured bozo and move on. Elitism can be a good thing.

>> No.21062541

>>21060094
This never happened and you know it.

>> No.21062723

>>21062541
/thread.

>> No.21062733

>>21062541
Like how do people even get in these very specific situations where you stumble on a topic about an author, usually someone more /lit/ and not Shakespeare, and get into an argument where modern-writer-X > the aforementioned one? So far the only discussions on books I've had with not older people have either ended in "I don't like le reading" or "I read shoedog and it was nice".
I'm very sceptical about these schizo threads.

>> No.21062745

>>21062733
He didn't say she said John Green > Shakespeare. Her saying she dislikes Shakespeare is not incredible at all, and it sounds like a real conversation because "word misuse" is a very odd criticism that wouldn't come from anyone from /lit/ where Shakespeare's mastery of languages is admitted even by haters. So I'm inclined to believe OP though it may have just been something he overheard in class or in library not a one-to-one conversation, hence why he didn't ask her to elaborate.

>> No.21063153

>>21060094
>WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE MEAN BY WORD MISUSE?
You didn't ask?

>> No.21063467

>>21060094
I think she thinks Shakespeare's dialect/poetic lexicon is just his contrivance of normal English, and supposedly, no one has the good enough taste to criticise it.

>> No.21063476

>>21060094
Based fucking maker-uper of stories

>> No.21063481

>>21062745
The "word misuse" part is exactly what makes it feel not real, though

>> No.21063523

>>21063481
maybe for an autist like you who never talks to anyone

>> No.21063527

>>21063523
It's not the term "word misuse" that is unbelievable, but the fact that one could be so autistic to not even ask what it meant.

>> No.21063544

>>21063527
when man wishes hole, man reserves his gainsay of hole

>> No.21063555

>>21060094
Anon, you’re an idiot.
By “word misuse” she quite obviously meant the use of archaic definitions of terms. These words seem “misused” to her, because their definitions have changed so much. For example, the word “compass” meaning “circle.” You’ll see that in Shakespeare and the King James Bible, but if someone today were to use the word compass when they mean “circle” today I would assume they said the wrong word by accident. Shakespeare’s so-called “word misuse” isn’t a fault in his writing of course, he doesn’t use archaic language to convey a style, he uses it because he lived a long time ago, and it wasn’t archaic back then.
You should have told her that you also sometimes have difficulty with the archaic language, but his characterizations and stories are so enriching you find it’s worth the trouble.
You should have told her that the title of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars” is a reference to a quote from Shakespeare.
She’s probably a Disney fan, you should have told her The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet.
You should have told her 10 Things I Hate About You is The Taming Of The Shrew.
You should have offered to show her the wonders of Shakespeare. To teach her, to help her.
You should have read A Midsummer Night’s Dream Together in each other’s arms under a starlit autumnal sky, sharing a bottle of wine together, drinking and giggling, gazing into each other’s eyes. You should go for the kiss.
You will regret this interaction which lead to nothing more but a shitty /lit/ thread for the rest of your life.