FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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more complex than many rappers’ vocabularies.
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not as accessible as many rappers’ vocabularies.
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more creative than many rappers’ vocabularies.
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not as big as many rappers’ vocabularies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It turns out that a good handful of rappers use a greater vocabulary than Shakespeare did, for the same sized block of lyrics. Daniels doesn’t draw the conclusion that today’s rappers are more creative and poetic than Shakespeare, but the implication hovers.
Detailed explanation-2: -But Daniels’s research showed that 15 other artists employed a higher number of unique words than Shakespeare, including Moby Dick and Outkast. The Beastie Boys came in just behind Shakespeare, with 5, 090 unique words to the Bard’s 5, 170. Jay Z narrowly beat Eminem at the midway mark, with 4, 506 to Slim Shady’s 4, 494.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1986 McCrum et al. said this to a Public Broadcasting System audience of millions: Shakespeare had one of the largest vocabularies of any English writer, some 30, 000 words. (Estimates of an educated person’s vocabulary today vary, but it is probably about half this, 15, 000)’ (2002 [1986], 102).
Detailed explanation-4: -William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of over 1, 700 words that are still used in English today. William Shakespeare used more than 20, 000 words in his plays and poems, and his works provide the first recorded use of over 1, 700 words in the English language.
Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare used 5170 unique words. Melville used 6022. In the top three places were Aesop Rock, GZA and Kool Keith, with 7392, 6426 and 6238 unique words respectively.