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made up language

posted 9 years ago by willygordon789
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I managed about 4 minutes of this, until the dialogue started, thought wtf, then ed harris comes out with (he tells the guy to get out of his sight or else) or.....' thou DIEST' what bloody language does diest come from, its not in the english language never has been, I reckon the plonker who wrote the script thought as long as it has 'st' at the end it must be shakespearian. it should have been go or thou shalt die. couldnt watch any more of this cringe making rubbish. balderdash as will would have said.

[–] nhnolan 9 years ago

Um,that's an actual line from the play. Diest is a word in early modern English.

[–] murad23 9 years ago

thou DIEST' what bloody language does diest come from, its not in the english language never has been

Uhm it is in the play and was a normal conjugation at the time of the verb to die.

and "will" used "diest' in 18 works.

The -eth and -est as in dost thou thinketh and thou thinkest were the rule back then

[–] ScottNichols 9 years ago

The language is genuine.

Try using English subtitles. It helped me. I kideth you notest!

Actors do not have a job...they have a blast!

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 8 years ago

OP, think before you post, another time.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

[–] Mhjm6 8 years ago

Are you familiar with the concept of old world English, you dumbass-eth?

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 8 years ago

OP HAD to be trolling- no one could POSSIBLY be that stupid.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

[–] nammage 7 years ago

You are correct and incorrect simultaneously. "Diest", in concern to Shakespeare, was poetic license. It's archaic but only in the sense it was only employed by Shakespeare in use. There were sporadic authors after Shakespeare who used it such as Hayne (19th Cent. writer) in his poem "Condemned", but they are so sparsely rare that one can determine that its first usage, most likely, was by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare created many words, over 1700 in common usage today. Many caught on, some, like "diest", did not.

-Nam

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