full fathom five...
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
October 3, 2009 10:25am CST
very very tenuous link to marine life this one. anyway dozens of shakespearean quotes have entered the language - 'sea change' from that one and countless others. probably because kiddies have been tortured with his plays for centuries in what are euphemistically called schools but i prefer to call hard labour prisons for the under 16s (i have remarkably few good memories of school). which, if any, shakespearean quotes are you aware of using? do you know which of the bard's plays/sonnets/limericks they came from?
3 responses
@LittleMrsSunshine (201)
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3 Oct 09
I seem to always say "too hot too hot, to mingle friendshio this far is to mingle blood"!!! when it is hot. i just have that quote rammed into my head. don't often read shakespeare now but do like to see it.
I also did english lit and now think i should have done sciences too. i keep thinking should have done engieneering or sometging but hey ho!
. you can always go back to uni you know - if you can stand 4 years of little kiddies... that's a great quote to be using btw.@LittleMrsSunshine (201)
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6 Oct 09
Maybe i will one day! But i am in a cool job now so am happy and doing loads of studying too!
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
3 Oct 09
Hi jb, well my UK school days were before yours when grammars were still in with a good time had by all, yes, apart from physics and crap language teaching I liked school and even read the old bard for fun so I could quote him till you were sent to sleep. But personally I loved his friends much more and Jacobean horror was my thing 'thou standing toad pool' (quote with marine life ref in) 'thou foul canker'.
@jb78000 (15139)
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3 Oct 09
actually i enjoyed some things but i had the worlds worst collection of teachers. i enjoyed english, completely in spite of the teacher. found out later when i was at university that this particular teacher was boasting about one of his students (me) having gone to university to study english lit and ling. apparently he though he had inspired me when nothing could have been further from the truth.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
3 Oct 09
Well I never jb, I did English lit too. Actually my sixth form English teacher was wonderful, she was very eccentric, whilst the history teacher for A level was about as inspiring as a bowl of dishwash. I never thought about if that influnced my choice or not because maybe I should have done a history degree on reflection - I suppose I was torn between the two.
@celticeagle (189820)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Oct 09
Most were from Romeo and Juliet. And why was his name first? I love the conversation between them when he comes to her window. I am such a romantic. Oh, and I like alot of the quotes from One Summer Nights Dream. Lovely. Come on. Get alittle romantic and go back over them. Nice. And there are the more dramatics one that I didn't care for at all.
