Re: What I'm listening to

On 2024-04-23, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

    William Shakespeare's influence on the English language is
    immense, with many phrases he coined still in common use
    today. Here are 25 popular phrases that originate from
    Shakespeare's plays:

    15. "Brave new world" (The Tempest) - a new and hopeful period
        in history.

Aldous Huxley has changed that.  When I now see that phrase it
popular usage, it refers to dystopic developments.

    18. "It was Greek to me" (Julius Caesar) - something that
        cannot be understood; incomprehensible.

That's some literary license.  The phrase is spoken by Servilius
Casca, who was one of the Roman senators that assassinated Caesar,
and as a member of the Roman upper class surely would have been
competent in Greek.

"Et tu, Brute?" from the same play is famously an invention by
Shakespeare.  Apocryphally, Caesar's dying words have been reported
as the Greek(!) phrase "kai su, teknon" ("you too, child").

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de