Jennifer Schneider of Super Scholar writes:
William Shakespeare would have turned 451 this year, but his works still echo through time. His archetypes are still found in contemporary plays, like “She’s the Man” or “Lion King”. He not only wrote around 850,000 words, but he invented more than 171,000 and he’s used more words than most modern rappers.
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“he’s used more words than most modern rappers”
The greatest playwright of the English language has a wider vocabulary than the average lyricist – wowee zowee.
“Only 16 modern rappers have used more unique words in their first 35,000 lyrics.”
Yeah, that one’s confusing and underwhelming in equal parts. I would say I feel “neathbrowed” by it. (That’s my new word, by the way TM)
INFOGRAM DESIGNED CIRCA 1996
I’ve never heard of the film Forbidden based on The Tempest but I have heard of Forbidden Planet
The part about the rappers is no clear. I think it is saying that Shakespeare invented more words than most rappers use but it is very badly written.
Also the statistic “only 16 rappers” is nonsense because it would be impossible to check every rapper’s lyrics.
No it’s just unique words, each word only counts once.
It is saying that the number of words that Shakespeare invented is greater than the number of unique words used by most rappers.
The infographic is not saying that there are rappers that have used more unique words than Shakespeare.
I have vertigo and feels sick just scrolling through that mess. Is that normal Doc?