FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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doesn’t always positively contribute to a written work.
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shows readers that the writer is educated.
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can come across as pretentious to the readers.
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is more important in oral storytelling than in writing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -doesn’t always positively contribute to a written work. shows readers that the writer is educated. can come across as pretentious to the readers. is more important in oral storytelling than in writing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even more astonishingly, they showed that Shakespeare’s latent vocabulary had to be at least 35, 000, besides the ‘known’ 31, 564, for a total vocabulary of at least 66, 000 inflected words (Efron and Thisted 1976: 435).
Detailed explanation-3: -The early modern English language was less than 100 years old in 1590 when Shakespeare was writing. No dictionaries had yet been written and most documents were still written in Latin. He contributed 1, 700 words to the English language because he was the first author to write them down.