Shakespeare's Insults - 1 June 2015
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🗓️ 1 June 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett |
| 0:36.0 | Grant you thresonical self-glorious hornbeast |
| 0:39.8 | I beg your part you aepish leptus leering abomination. |
| 0:45.0 | All true, but I don't know what it means. |
| 0:48.0 | I am having so much fun with this book called the Shakespeare Insult generator. |
| 0:54.2 | Oh boy, they made that just for you. |
| 0:56.2 | One copy it says Martha Barnett on the front. |
| 0:58.7 | I think he's got your name inside. |
| 1:01.4 | It's by Barry Craft K-R-A-F-T. He is a Shakespearean actor himself and he's done this really |
| 1:10.0 | ingenious thing. He's made this flip book that has 54 pages and each page is actually |
| 1:16.2 | broken into three flippable cards which means that you can mix and match them and |
| 1:22.1 | these are all insults that Shakespeare used insulting |
| 1:25.8 | words and you you have potentially a hundred fifty thousand |
| 1:30.1 | combinations that you think yes yes by flipping the various cards so you get all these |
| 1:35.7 | three element combinations like grant you lumpish mouse-eaten geech? That's outstanding. It's really wonderful and one of the things I |
| 1:47.1 | really like about it is that it's teaching me all these words I didn't know |
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