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ilovepawgs (10/26/2015) [-]
I honestly don't ever post, I just look at the funny pictures. I guess that's why I got thumbed down.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] 
I graduated with a bachelor's in English. This content pleases me.
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derpthefifth (10/27/2015) [-] I'm sorry.
Pretty much the only job i know of other than journalism or writing a blog is teaching English to kids, which i can only imagine is exactly as horrible as it seems like it is.
Pretty much the only job i know of other than journalism or writing a blog is teaching English to kids, which i can only imagine is exactly as horrible as it seems like it is.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
When I subbed for public school, I was generally afraid. I'm of small stature, and many of the students were my size or bigger ...
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anon (10/27/2015) [-]
The degree can be used to get onto Master courses like language therapy, and linguistics. But can also be used for language development analysis/theory, historic document analysis, political ghost speech writers, court reporter, publishing and editorial work, translation, working abroad to teach english, and other communication creers such as a higher rank civil servant.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-] It's almost as if people are complicated and have multiple interests.
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unoriginalaccount (10/26/2015) [-] I was going to make a fun joke about not finding a job but other people ruined it by seriously thinking you wouldnt and now I don't want to look like a fool
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earthandfire (10/26/2015) [-]
if you don't mind me asking, what do you plan to do with your philosophy degree? i know philosophy teaches you how to write and think well, so its benefits are broad.
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AztecJew (10/27/2015) [-] I got it by accident. I was supposed to be getting a graphic design degree and the college changed the requirements my 3rd year and additionally altered what they considered social sciences and humanities. I ended with no social sciences and a ******** of humanities and was already taking some more advanced philosophy classes when they did. I didn't meet the requirements for a graphic design degree and was too burnt out for two more semesters of class so I argued with them and they ended up giving me two associates (Applied arts and Philosophy). I almost took a teaching possession but I went for a game design program instead and now thats what I do. The philosophy just helps me write more compelling narratives and the art degree helps me get better pay.
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strangesir (10/27/2015) [-] Holy Christ that looks like a high-graphic game, or some crazy intense-detail mask.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
... It's a photograph of a geiko (geisha), a traditional female entertainer of Japan, usually working in Tokyo or Kyoto. They sing, dance, play instruments, play drinking games, tell stories, and generally be fun to talk to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
Kabuki is a dance drama sort of theatre performance.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
Yep! I think some of them were also prostitutes for men and women?
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-] No op. I was born with a vagina, and decided to keep it. Have a girly wallpaper.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
I'm not offended, dude. Sometimes, people don't exactly know what someone's gender is. The fact that I was confused for some sort of transsexual does not bother me. I know I have a man's nose ... and maybe a man's chin ... I look like my father, my mother, and my mother's father mixed together.
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dubstroyer (10/26/2015) [-]
Wow, that's nice. Best of luck to you fellow writer. I am wishing to make it as a writer as well. Currently it's my hobby, while working and studying computer science, but hope someone stumbles upon my book on Smashwords and spreads the word. Wouldn't link it here, though, it's not in English, so ... Still, interesting to see there are published writers on FJ. Success stories inspire me, just like the one about Andy Weir, if you have heard about him, the author of The Martian? I've been following him since the days he gave the book around for free, and it's inspired me to try writing, as he was, like I am now, a computer programmer.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
I don't know of him, unfortunately. Sounds like a neat guy.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1QB3VO?keywords=merc
Currently halfway through my second novel. Had some writer's block. Now I'm reading all my work so far, proofreading, and getting myself hyped.
Currently halfway through my second novel. Had some writer's block. Now I'm reading all my work so far, proofreading, and getting myself hyped.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] Thanks.
OMFG. My sis' English boyfriend just got some Haribo gummy bears. I warned him about the sugar free kind and showed him reviews on Amazon. We had to check his pack of gummies very carefully. However, he said he wanted to buy a pack of the sugar free kind, and a pack of the normal kind, mix them up in a bowl, and serve them at a party.
OMFG. My sis' English boyfriend just got some Haribo gummy bears. I warned him about the sugar free kind and showed him reviews on Amazon. We had to check his pack of gummies very carefully. However, he said he wanted to buy a pack of the sugar free kind, and a pack of the normal kind, mix them up in a bowl, and serve them at a party.
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garyhasmorebadges (10/26/2015) [-] It's cool to see someone following their dream, whilst being beneficial to society. Nice job.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
kdp.amazon.com/
It costs me no money, but they take $30 or so of my profits. I think it's fair. Also, you need an account. I also suggest that you get a kindle, or kindle for pc, and download this free book.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007URVZJ6?keywords=how%
Maybe this one too. I didn't read this one, though.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LX069M?keywords=how%
It costs me no money, but they take $30 or so of my profits. I think it's fair. Also, you need an account. I also suggest that you get a kindle, or kindle for pc, and download this free book.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007URVZJ6?keywords=how%
Maybe this one too. I didn't read this one, though.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LX069M?keywords=how%
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
No probs! BTW, there is an interesting trend of peculiar erotic stories on amazon kindle. If you want a laugh, here you go. you might be able to make some money writing this stuff, especially since it's so popular, but I can't bring myself to write it.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S4B95RQ?keywords=dino
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015HJ4L58?keywords=dino
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016WDLK66?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YTBOIM?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YPLKT4?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YPLN3M?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016VENIB6?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S4B95RQ?keywords=dino
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015HJ4L58?keywords=dino
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016WDLK66?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YTBOIM?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YPLKT4?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YPLN3M?keywords=shap
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016VENIB6?keywords=shap
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] Omfg ... I just found this. What is wrong with people?
www.amazon.com/Helicopter-Man-Pounds-Dinosaur-Bill
www.amazon.com/Helicopter-Man-Pounds-Dinosaur-Bill
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-] I can't stop laughing at this. It's like ... he takes the most random **** , turns it into kindle porn, and sells it.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
I mean, my friend found this for me. Damn. I forget how to English sometimes. Shows what a degree can get you, not much.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
wait. they take 30% of your profits. not $30. sorry!!!!!!!!!!!
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1QB3VO?keywords=merc
I must warn you. My first book ever isn't the best in the world.
I must warn you. My first book ever isn't the best in the world.
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sadisticsalmon (10/26/2015) [-] Better ending than undoing the entirety of the game I guess
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
If I remember correctly, the source is a group of comics with Max dicking around with her powers ... and making Chloe suffer.
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sadisticsalmon (10/26/2015) [-] OH yehhh, I was really tempted to try find them because I recognised the art style form a few posts I'd seen on reddit, guys name on deviantart is "thegouldenway"
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] **thehistorylover used "*roll picture*"**
**thehistorylover rolled image**Fairly tough, but mostly because I live in a very rural area where the only jobs around are either in fast food or education, and a higher up in the board of education told me to my face that there was nothing for me. At least she was honest.
**thehistorylover rolled image**Fairly tough, but mostly because I live in a very rural area where the only jobs around are either in fast food or education, and a higher up in the board of education told me to my face that there was nothing for me. At least she was honest.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] **thehistorylover used "*roll picture*"**
**thehistorylover rolled image**I don't understand. I am not smart enough.
**thehistorylover rolled image**I don't understand. I am not smart enough.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] Thank you. I appreciate your patience. Have some art to enjoy. :3
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opticmonkey (10/27/2015) [-] Graduated with a bachelor's in english but used the wrong "two"
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PenguinsOfMars (10/27/2015) [-] you shouldn't be browsing fj at work... oh wait ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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sanitarysan (10/27/2015) [-] the image says that she is aroused sexually, implying it is not safe for work. or at least that's what i am guessing.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-] Wait. I think I just got it. He called me a whore? Clever.
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sanitarysan (10/27/2015) [-] this is quite the coincidence... i just replied to your comment 8 seconds ago...
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congorepublic (10/26/2015) [-] Good luck getting a job with that waste of a degree, pleb.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] I'm currently getting too much sex to commit suicide. Something about dick feels right.
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whiteusername ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] congrats, now if you get another degree you can get a job...or you can teach english i hoap this is bawthering yu
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Are you so dense that you forgot that there are plenty of places where he could work? As native speaker and bachelor in English you can just go teach English in plenty of places, and if not for teaching he can translate, he can write novels/columns and **** . You can just stick your Dragon dildo back up arse and when you have a bachelors degree in anything, you can maybe come talking **** again, maybe. But I doubt it.
I really get mad at people who talk **** about someone else their education.
I really get mad at people who talk **** about someone else their education.
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Sure we can, and about a lot. But I've a genuine aversion to such ******** as calling **** on someone's education. It's not even a clever joke, I would have appreciated that, but this isn't clever. I think I'm allowed to get pissed at atleast something here while I let all the other **** go by whithout caring for it
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stealingbikes (10/26/2015) [-] Unless it's in women's studies, right? Cause that's a ******* joke.
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Can't argue with that yeah haha, wonder what they would even study
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shanethedragon (10/26/2015) [-] and we would have appreciated if you didn't decide to be such a little bitch
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satchamo (10/26/2015) [-]
either everything is ok to joke about or nothing is. christ itd be different if the dude had sent a paragraph like you did. learn to laugh ass wipe. i enjoy literature just as much as any one but im not about to let one cheesy joke ruin my mood when its not even serious.
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] I'm fairly sure I can decide for myself what I deem OK to joke about and what not to. I just don't appreciate this joke, and if I feel like ruining my mood over such I comment than that's my decision. You've not to agree with or disagree with me on anything, but neither do I. So have at it, I just dont like it.
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satchamo (10/26/2015) [-]
i can only understand half your reply haha but i do understand every one has their own sense of humor. i know we all laugh at different things, but there are better ways of handling jokes we simply cant appreciate than hopping on a high horse and trying to run down any one in our way.
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satchamo (10/26/2015) [-]
my annoyance was never hidden. i just thought it was silly that he got so worked up over a joke that he himself said wasnt very clever. the dude got reds because some one got butt hurt over a joke. its a joke. look at this site haha if you cant take a simple joke then what are you doing here? let alone the internet. yes its ok to disagree with whats funny and what isnt, but to take something thats not even remotely serious so strongly is what i do not understand. that irks me more than some one making a comment saying literature is for girls and queers haha
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Ja kan, maar wat is ESL? Yeah he could, but what's ESL?
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shadowblaziard ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Ohh, yeah. That would be useful, especially to get rid of the Louis van Gaal accent
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
I wanted a degree in Spanish, but my father literally yelled at me to convince me to stick with English. They still think it was the best degree for me.
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thehistorylover (10/27/2015) [-]
I'm not intelligent enough for math. Math make my brain not work.
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languagexplain ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] It's unlikely that Shakespeare actually made all these words up. He was just the first bugger to write them down in a published work. Which is of course really impressive considering the massive amounts of english literary publishing aimed at the common folk that were being printed at the time.
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languagexplain ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] There's no real evidence that he didn't, and fairly strong evidence that he did a lot of the work. The best case that can reasonably be made is that he didn't write ALL of his work, but co-authored or just supervised a bunch of it.
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languagexplain ONLINE (10/26/2015) [-] Same reason some languages have a case system and some don't. **** just evolves that way.
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idiotoncomputer (10/26/2015) [-] I feel like this in Latin
its like you were given a burger; but the meat is where the bun should be, the bread where the meat should be, and the lettuce and other condiments are sticking out the side like a ******* ship tail
its like you were given a burger; but the meat is where the bun should be, the bread where the meat should be, and the lettuce and other condiments are sticking out the side like a ******* ship tail
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] **thehistorylover used "*roll picture*"**
**thehistorylover rolled image**... Is that ... is that ... what I think it is?
**thehistorylover rolled image**... Is that ... is that ... what I think it is?
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alphagex (10/26/2015) [-] I'm from quebec and i would gladly memorize by heart every single advanced English words rather then go back trying to learn french grammar.
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raccoonpunta (10/27/2015) [-] " Omle du fla''''' ack hurrrrgggggg" ... "He spoke French, Help Him !" - Steve Martin rulz.
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Jenisist (10/26/2015) [-] That's crazy bro. Im a sophmore in college and did French and Spanish in high school, now I'm doing Mandarin. I want to pick back up on my French and Spanish eventually. Tell me, how is studying French and Mandarin at the same time? æˆ‘ä¹Ÿæƒ³é—®ä½ ï¼Œä½ åœ¨å“ªé‡Œå¦ä¹ 呢？高ä¸è¿˜æ˜¯å¤§å¦ï¼Ÿ
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
Oh, btw, I studied at a university, but never became fluent. I forgot most of what I learned.
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rollfourexplain (10/26/2015) [-]
The only thing I can say is that studying French and Spanish at the same time is almost impossible for me. I get the two mixed up so badly.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-] **thehistorylover used "*roll picture*"**
**thehistorylover rolled image**It's not bad. I just had to pay close attention in class and do my homework. I wish I could remember at least half of the stuff I studied. As of right now, I'm focusing on Japanese. No classes. Self-teaching.
**thehistorylover rolled image**It's not bad. I just had to pay close attention in class and do my homework. I wish I could remember at least half of the stuff I studied. As of right now, I'm focusing on Japanese. No classes. Self-teaching.
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thehistorylover (10/26/2015) [-]
The class was years ago ... and I don't remember enough Chinese to understand you.
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articulate (10/27/2015) [-] Loser. It's the oldest game still played in its original form. A piece of living history.
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Conquistador (10/27/2015) [-] God... hopefully ******** that originated on the internet don't ever become officially recognized as part of the English language.
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raccoonpunta (10/27/2015) [-] MFW they just don't teach cursive writing anymore ... (no one will be able to read the real history from the letters written by the people that were actually there at the time, only what big brother tells them in print.)
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Das (10/27/2015) [-] Not sure what they're doing where you live, but they still teach it around where I'm at. I work with kids who know cursive...in fact most of them have better cursive than I do.
The kids I work with are starting it as young as third grade. I didn't start it until 5th grade I believe.
The kids I work with are starting it as young as third grade. I didn't start it until 5th grade I believe.
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raccoonpunta (10/27/2015) [-] That is so EXCELLENT. I live in KY, they're really ****** in the head here about everything.
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Das (10/27/2015) [-] I'm in Western PA. It's a rural town and I have a lot of complaints about the school system these kids have, but yeah as far as cursive goes they are learning that and even younger than I did.
One of the craziest things is the math, and apparently they're starting this everywhere, but there's this "Core Math" thing they do and it's just absurd. I don't know if the teachers even like it.
One of the craziest things is the math, and apparently they're starting this everywhere, but there's this "Core Math" thing they do and it's just absurd. I don't know if the teachers even like it.
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raccoonpunta (10/27/2015) [-] I know about the math, INSANE. KY will be laughed at from coast to coast on this cursive thing, as usual
I wish I could sue them.
I wish I could sue them.
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messier (10/27/2015) [-] **messier used "*roll picture*"**
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Faggot
fag·got
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NORTH AMERICANinformaloffensive
a male homosexual.
2.
British spelling of fagot.
3. Original Poster also known as OP. Example: OP's a faggot.
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Faggot
fag·got
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noun
1.
NORTH AMERICANinformaloffensive
a male homosexual.
2.
British spelling of fagot.
3. Original Poster also known as OP. Example: OP's a faggot.
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PSpepper (10/26/2015) [-] Isn't there some sort of conspiracy theory that Shakespeare didn't actually write his own plays, or something stupid like that?
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fuckoatmeal (10/26/2015) [-] Christopher Marlowe supposedly faked his death but continued to write and used Shakespeare as the name on his work so he could still write. IDK how true it is but it was something I read in a "History of murder" book.
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Tyranitar (10/27/2015) [-] Some stupid people try to think up theories like that. Some say Shakespeare was a pen name for some other famous person at the time, some say it was a woman or a group of people that wrote the plays, some say he stole them, and some say he never existed, and that plays with anonymous authors were just given that name to draw attention.
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schneidend (10/26/2015) [-] There's some stupid people who ignore the ********* of evidence that Shakespeare was not only a real guy but obviously wrote his own plays. They're basically the anti-vaxxers of the literary world.
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lazypaul (10/26/2015) [-] He didn't actually invent most of these words, but he was one of the few people who could write that listened to the way the common people talked and wrote it down, rather than just the queens english.
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steelhawk (10/26/2015) [-]
Shakespeare probably did not make up most of the words he is attributed.
The reason for this is that he is pretty much the only written source for most Early Modern English so when trying to find the source of words people would go as far back as possible to try and see the earliest use.
Due to poor record keeping and rampant illiteracy many words were not written down for
decades after their inception, leading to Shakespeare using common (for the time) words but being the only record of them to survive.
That is not to say that he never came up with words of his own but that rather he was just the first to write a lot of them down.
The reason for this is that he is pretty much the only written source for most Early Modern English so when trying to find the source of words people would go as far back as possible to try and see the earliest use.
Due to poor record keeping and rampant illiteracy many words were not written down for
decades after their inception, leading to Shakespeare using common (for the time) words but being the only record of them to survive.
That is not to say that he never came up with words of his own but that rather he was just the first to write a lot of them down.
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thediamondhack (10/26/2015) [-] **thediamondhack used "*roll picture*"**
**thediamondhack rolled image** haha this is amuzing to me. i will favorite it so i can return to it in the future when men are robots and cats give birth to dogs
**thediamondhack rolled image** haha this is amuzing to me. i will favorite it so i can return to it in the future when men are robots and cats give birth to dogs
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hairybaboon (10/27/2015) [-]
People also recognize that the non-Shakespeare dude is Samuel Johnson, who wrote an early and very influential dictionary? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Apparently (wikipedia) he quoted shakespeare to provide reference for the words in his dictionary. So maybe this is less accurate of his views. And death to birth was about 100 years, so they never could have met.
Apparently (wikipedia) he quoted shakespeare to provide reference for the words in his dictionary. So maybe this is less accurate of his views. And death to birth was about 100 years, so they never could have met.
