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"Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words" So much for the modern Shakespeares on the list.
by htk 12y ago
"Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words"
So much for the modern Shakespeares on the list.
- VMG 12y agoAs well as the old Shakespeare who was ranked according to the same rules.
- htk 12y agoI haven't read all his work, but I guess Shakespeare didn't use "hangn" and "hangin" as an alternative to "hanging". The author could validate the words against a dictionary, but it would still be flawed due to conjugations being counted as different words.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoWhat about conjugations like hang'd vs hanged to fit the meter?
- octo_t 12y agounlike shakespeare who was so high class and never made 'your mom' jokes or used any toilet humour or anything like that.
- crdoconnor 12y agoor jokes about "nothing".
- redacted 12y agoAnd literally made pimp jokes: http://poetry.rapgenius.com/William-shakespeare-hamlet-act-2-scene-2-annotated#note-1567189 http://poetry.rapgenius.com/William-shakespeare-hamlet-act-2...