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Nope, false. Ask a linguist. It's not Elizabethan. Walt Wolfram, the linguist they quote, is quite certainly irritated by the headline. All of his decades of wo
by gumboshoes 7y ago
Nope, false. Ask a linguist. It's not Elizabethan. Walt Wolfram, the linguist they quote, is quite certainly irritated by the headline. All of his decades of work summed up by a stupidly incorrect headline.
- benatkin 7y agoI don't think the author thinks the headline is literally true. It's contradicted in the first paragraph: "It's like someone took Elizabethan English, sprinkled in some Irish tones and 1700s Scottish accents, then mixed it all up with pirate slang." I don't mind it because I don't think it's misleading. It's just a mildly inaccurate simplification to draw readers in. I don't think it would bother the linguist they quote, either.
- hvs 7y ago"mildly inaccurate simplification" is a long way to say "clickbait."
- TallGuyShort 7y agoYou really think that simplifying to Elizabethan has a significant impact on how interesting the article sounds and to whom? As if there was an intentional decision to deceive people who are excited to hear about Elizabethan English only to find out it's not quite Elizabethan English. What sinister scheming!
- astazangasta 7y agoIn 1759 Elizabeth was dead for 150 years.
- TallGuyShort 7y ago... so?
- justin66 7y agoTruly, using Elizabethan English in headlines to draw unwitting readers in is the plague of the modern internet. I wish it would stop.
- justin66 7y ago> I don't think the author thinks the headline is literally true. Just a friendly reminder: authors do not typically create their headlines, headlines are created by an editor.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've replaced that bit above with what Walt is quoted as saying in the article.