Shakespeare would have had a blog


	Shakespeare would have had a blog

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ada289c2-9803-46af-ba6f-3e41474167d0/220A9EDE-C2A1-4BBE-94E9-702B5FEAF25E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/rich-and-strange" href="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/rich-and-strange" style="font-size: 11px;">www.moreintelligentlife.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/rich-and-strange">In any case, Shakespeare
would have loved the internet. (This is something <A href="http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2007/09/26/rylance/">Mark Rylance cleverly suggested
in last year's play "The Big Secret Live ‘I Am Shakespeare' Webcam Daytime
Chat-Room Show</A>", an ambitious comedy that resurrects the bard using the
electric human power of the web.) Our beloved <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EFD8103DF936A1575BC0A9649C8B63">neologising</A>
court jester of coinage, Shakespeare <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare">invented
some 2,000 new and compound words</A> and <A href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html">a
host of now-familiar phrases</A>. He was particularly partial to turning nouns
into verbs--to cudgel, to champion, to gossip--just as we like to twitter, to
spam or to blog (he would surely have <A href="http://www.johnheronproject.com/wp/?p=50">gorged himself on Google</A>
like a kid in a sweetshop). He created numerous compounds from existing words
(farmhouse, bloodsucking); we do the same (homepage, podcasting). The man who
first used the falconry term ‘hoodwinked' to describe human trickery might even
have enjoyed being <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/mar/19/news">rick-rolled</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/220A9EDE-C2A1-4BBE-94E9-702B5FEAF25E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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