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(DIR) Post #AUxW42mzd275iw1zLU by lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T23:32:59Z
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Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.
(DIR) Post #AUxWHDdKcapf7YnJDM by CaliGal@mstdn.party
2023-04-23T23:35:22Z
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@lowqualityfacts š¤£š
(DIR) Post #AUxWNe0TTlpSeagPXk by elmiller0330@disabled.social
2023-04-23T23:36:32Z
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@lowqualityfacts I picked my college thesis topic in large part so I could use a word I coined during a discussion session. It's been 15 years and I'm still proud of that.
(DIR) Post #AUxWPcO6T9DiDCg0JM by bonkers@nerdculture.de
2023-04-23T23:36:53Z
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@lowqualityfacts this is totally unfair
(DIR) Post #AUxWoBTPfnPJyhsFX6 by mypalmike@macaw.social
2023-04-23T23:41:18Z
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@lowqualityfacts Teachers are so malquescent.
(DIR) Post #AUxWoDMOeqz1pWbfsG by moliver@pleistocene.social
2023-04-23T23:41:17Z
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@lowqualityfacts Quiet cromulent.
(DIR) Post #AUxWzWlopeqBDMtNK4 by JennZycos@lgbtqia.space
2023-04-23T23:43:23Z
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@lowqualityfacts Teacher being an absolute snubkot.
(DIR) Post #AUxXBBKWN9bCC4gHeS by jackcole@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T23:45:27Z
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@lowqualityfacts #Education doesn't favor the #creative thinker:The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis,the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-- these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."The Process of Education", Jerome S. Bruener
(DIR) Post #AUxYJxKDuYdLJqI0OW by Hyolobrika@berserker.town
2023-04-23T23:58:15Z
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@lowqualityfactsBecome a conlanger#conlanging
(DIR) Post #AUxZo1p5quv7uWdFyq by ajft@aus.social
2023-04-24T00:14:55Z
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@lowqualityfacts can distinctly remember an english teacher telling us this, and saying that we too, were free to make up words, providing our writing was up to Shakespeare's quality
(DIR) Post #AUxa9CXRCzxXDzTCFc by massa@bolha.us
2023-04-24T00:18:45Z
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@lowqualityfactsOne vould say that, like Mozart in the "how do I compose a symphony Herr Mozart" story, Shakespeare didn't ask for instructions or permission.
(DIR) Post #AUxbxuTqCvEHwRWzp2 by scotian@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T00:39:04Z
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@lowqualityfacts smh teachers in the pocket of Big Prescriptivism
(DIR) Post #AUxeskH51azohfn7Y0 by OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz
2023-04-24T01:11:45Z
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@lowqualityfacts Ridiculous hoodlefroo if you ask me!
(DIR) Post #AUxfBE4ywwFgM0wdnM by cdalten@sfba.social
2023-04-24T01:15:06Z
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@lowqualityfacts hahaha
(DIR) Post #AUxgPQ4zELApa1HLeq by Bodling@deacon.social
2023-04-24T01:28:55Z
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@lowqualityfacts Better teacher: Sure! Just be sure to write your paper in iambic pentameter.
(DIR) Post #AUxh9tVAAgx69UgQwS by toxtethogrady@universeodon.com
2023-04-24T01:37:19Z
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@lowqualityfacts That's because Shakespeare was a cunning linguist...
(DIR) Post #AUxhbXgQsuOaan8dTE by oldmanmike@c.im
2023-04-24T01:42:14Z
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@lowqualityfacts hereās a fact: i put the word āmedachodicalā in a history exam I did at school many years ago and nobody said squat. Iām kind of like Shakespeare in this respect, medachodically speaking.
(DIR) Post #AUxi2plDmXaCTcOLqK by deskJet95@ohai.social
2023-04-24T01:47:13Z
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@lowqualityfacts Germans are objectively better than us anglophones when it comes to rules about making creative, on-the-fly compound words
(DIR) Post #AUxi5EeIDdZeFHIQEK by rykthekreator@mstdn.ca
2023-04-24T01:47:38Z
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@lowqualityfacts I rebuild words in english all of the time! Exceot when clarity is primary. Then, I be a good laddy. š
(DIR) Post #AUxitu6wL1ofJhr9Si by noplasticshower@zirk.us
2023-04-24T01:56:46Z
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@lowqualityfacts abso-fucking-lutely is a neologism
(DIR) Post #AUxkpR0So17dnip7lw by atatassault@universeodon.com
2023-04-24T02:18:24Z
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@lowqualityfacts That teacher is not cromulent.
(DIR) Post #AUxo4g31SrmgemyqVE by everbern@stranger.social
2023-04-24T02:54:45Z
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@lowqualityfacts People don't use all the words they have now! We don't need to buy more!
(DIR) Post #AUxrcZE3dQ6LCtzewC by Tattered@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T03:34:31Z
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social I would absolutely allow it; on the condition that the papers be in iambic pentameter.
(DIR) Post #AUxvC0jHfVbwVRBxAm by scameron1@me.dm
2023-04-24T04:14:32Z
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@lowqualityfacts luckily the final arbiters are the users. Tough audience but fair.
(DIR) Post #AUxvLFzOInxgRK8PKa by sallyTAB@mas.to
2023-04-24T04:16:10Z
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@lowqualityfacts BTW, this exists
(DIR) Post #AUy4y4gLAwG4FgoBRQ by Island_Martha@epicure.social
2023-04-24T06:04:04Z
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@lowqualityfacts What kind of a lousy teacher says that!If a student of mine had come up with a new word and could explain her thinking to get there, I'd give them extra credit.
(DIR) Post #AUyFcJ9PnZmWFfEOp6 by SoftSecrets@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T08:03:24Z
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@lowqualityfacts š
(DIR) Post #AUyIl1WB1gxa26j2Jc by Synchroma@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T08:38:35Z
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@lowqualityfacts HAHHAAHHhha!!! This was EXACTLY me!! All my English Lit papers in highschool bore great big fat red marker circles by my teacher with the word āInvented-ismā at the top! I blame Shakespeare and Chaucer!
(DIR) Post #AUyJ6xmVbE70oapHaS by Synchroma@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T08:42:34Z
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@lowqualityfacts All my people on this thread š§µš¤
(DIR) Post #AUyVXlu14W6DF3t5Ci by Geri@mastodon.online
2023-04-24T11:01:52Z
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@lowqualityfacts Shakespeare was the first person to use the word "hobnob" This demonstrates what a genius he was because the biscuit wasn't invented until 1985.#facts#biscuits
(DIR) Post #AUyVj2bPK3Y0DlYakC by merospit@infosec.exchange
2023-04-24T11:03:55Z
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@lowqualityfacts innovation is only something that happens to others
(DIR) Post #AUyZIHJGvqRTpjZINE by VaylLarkinPoet@disabled.social
2023-04-24T11:43:49Z
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@lowqualityfacts I don't believe this. I make up lots of words and my legions of fans say nary a word regarding their incalcinatory crumnumulance. Of course, I am a poet, and we get away with things. (...or lie... I can never remember).
(DIR) Post #AUyagEfAWZM8WpnWr2 by simonwilliamson@mastodon.world
2023-04-24T11:59:25Z
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@lowqualityfacts "Not even if I change my name to Shakespeare by deed poll?"
(DIR) Post #AUyeVCKFH4LfuV0H0C by RushGirl@stranger.social
2023-04-24T12:42:10Z
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@lowqualityfactsEnjoy!#HokeyPokeyShakespeareStyle
(DIR) Post #AUyfMm0FMCE3uTCD2W by MaJ1@mastodonapp.uk
2023-04-24T12:51:49Z
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@lowqualityfacts language Timothy! š
(DIR) Post #AUygbJZ3TOSu0UyVZA by pattykimura@mastodon.lol
2023-04-24T13:05:44Z
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@lowqualityfacts I was once in a juried week-long poetry seminar with a famous poet. We were to produce one new poem each day. I wrote a poem that included the name of a moth. Another student objected, saying no such moth existed. I smiled and agreed that I made it up. The other poet insisted it disqualified the poem. The famous poet grinned and said "No. It's called imagination. It's what we do."
(DIR) Post #AUyougL1pA9tm39zOK by MahatmaKG@birds.town
2023-04-24T14:38:54Z
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@lowqualityfacts Notice: this has about 5k upvotes on r/me_irl, didn't realize it would blow up like that. Will remove if you consider it insufficiently creditedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/12wxen6/me_irl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
(DIR) Post #AUys17LacMnb8oBPCi by Basic_Bench@mstdn.social
2023-04-24T15:13:36Z
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@lowqualityfactsthis seems like a quality fact
(DIR) Post #AUz1mKPuk2lgsFnBwW by PeteLittle1970@fosstodon.org
2023-04-24T17:03:04Z
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@lowqualityfacts well isn't that a sprungelflukk right in the glibberbumval :(Why does Shakespeare get to saluflungigate the language but us other lesser more squibfilliopius individuals have to make do with existing words?Totally drogterrian if you askquipulate me. ;)(I majored in conversational Vogon ;p )
(DIR) Post #AUz7S7wg05go7xrpdQ by lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
2023-04-24T18:06:29Z
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@MahatmaKG Haha that's hilarious, no need to remove!
(DIR) Post #AUzlVRG0eVSl3c2my8 by LizardSF@universeodon.com
2023-04-25T01:35:27Z
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@lowqualityfacts https://youtu.be/A8M8qTclbho
(DIR) Post #AVlq7L26av4y32Lp8i by kitchen@simian.rodeo
2023-05-18T06:13:16Z
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@lowqualityfacts @TicklishHoneyBee ITYM absofuckinglutely not
(DIR) Post #AVlrNjbb6PCEqUKnCK by Heinzenstein@troet.cafe
2023-05-18T06:27:25Z
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@lowqualityfacts That's syncolastically blonz.
(DIR) Post #AVnN9JaCRqPJm7oBua by jamesjm@mastodon.social
2023-05-18T23:58:00Z
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@lowqualityfacts abso-fucking-lutely not!
(DIR) Post #AWPsMURH8gi1br73DM by cweickhmann@qoto.org
2023-06-06T13:46:51Z
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@lowqualityfacts But did you know that Shakespeare was only his nom de plume? His original name was William Shatner.
(DIR) Post #AWPtc9eYHvJljNM8tk by hairylarry@mastodon.social
2023-06-06T14:00:53Z
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@lowqualityfacts They hate it when you make your own grammer rules too.
(DIR) Post #AWPwdyku4keaNGt91s by GothAndy@musicians.today
2023-06-06T14:34:48Z
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@lowqualityfacts Tutherarf and I make up and repurpose words all the time. Of course, I can't actually think of any right now....
(DIR) Post #AXiuozaBAsltKOSFYe by spherulitic@tech.lgbt
2023-07-15T16:06:02Z
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@lowqualityfacts the argument is ten times worse when playing #scrabble
(DIR) Post #AXiv5tRvEMrzEGeSBc by BunRab@mstdn.social
2023-07-15T16:09:06Z
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@lowqualityfacts well, if you put them in iambic pentameter and make the whole paper scan and rhyme, while also making sense, you might get away with it.
(DIR) Post #AXiwRRu2QdE27Ve3Au by jgg@qoto.org
2023-07-15T16:24:11Z
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@lowqualityfacts In order to break the rules properly, you have to learn them first.
(DIR) Post #AXiz1VqdRDAcgmNSfQ by GordonIsenburg@mastodon.social
2023-07-15T16:53:07Z
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@lowqualityfacts I realize this was an amusing allegory on teaching etiquette.Yet...Language is evolving more rapidly than at any time in human history, teacher admonishments or not.Whe are made to forcibly adapt, despite all resistance.I find it a delight, especially when it comes to my community, expressing new Queer terminology/colloquialisms to a world that shut us out for well over 2000 years.
(DIR) Post #AXj0QgrvhQlK3zYJaS by MayhamMonday@mstdn.ca
2023-07-15T17:08:50Z
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@lowqualityfacts I remember telling my grade school spelling teacher in the '70s that one day they're going to condense words when writing & she pretty much gave me the same response. Years later cell phones came out and people started texting using condensed words!
(DIR) Post #AXj0qw4FoUM6jMpdBI by sidereal@kolektiva.social
2023-07-15T17:13:37Z
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@lowqualityfacts wun day i truly beleev tedi ruseveltās speling reforms wil be adoptt
(DIR) Post #AXj9vZlz1zCecWZboe by Scofisticated@socel.net
2023-07-15T18:55:17Z
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@lowqualityfacts :blob_laughing:
(DIR) Post #AZA4klaTVwjhoqdqPQ by nosmaharba@mastodon.world
2023-08-27T16:26:19Z
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@lowqualityfacts Irredisregardlessly....
(DIR) Post #AZA4mP7G25yIhlkx1s by whatstheruckus@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T16:26:27Z
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@lowqualityfacts Duh! Only a linguistics master has the valoxicut to make up new words.
(DIR) Post #AZA4pXwLgK6wwP9UbA by derpoltergeist@col.social
2023-08-27T16:27:08Z
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@lowqualityfacts As someone who majored in literature, invented words were definitely encouraged in papers.
(DIR) Post #AZA6L31QGne6Gr6tpg by yourautisticlife@mast.yourautisticlife.com
2023-08-27T16:38:21Z
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@lowqualityfacts Spock: You can make up new words only if you are part of the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Words.
(DIR) Post #AZA7bpOKIjxCsDO9bM by potpie@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T16:58:11Z
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@lowqualityfacts Teacher needs to look up what the fuck "first attestation" means.
(DIR) Post #AZAS7LPVIsgAEsFFL6 by TheTinCanAndroid@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T20:48:24Z
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@lowqualityfacts SHGRUNKLEFUNT
(DIR) Post #AZBXNuASXQNvbCsrb6 by Penguinflight@mastodon.scot
2023-08-28T09:22:08Z
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@lowqualityfacts
(DIR) Post #Ab3OeV3gFdN2vVtzGK by justanotherinternetguy@mastodon.social
2023-10-22T21:36:07Z
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@lowqualityfacts all the conlangers right now:
(DIR) Post #Ab3SH4MBlByjGmdrbk by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
2023-10-22T22:38:59Z
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@lowqualityfacts The idea that Shakespeare invented hundreds of words is complete nonsense, based on a misunderstanding of how dictionaries work.
(DIR) Post #Ab3Zqik4IgUCKvl5Q8 by potpie@mastodon.social
2023-10-22T23:07:59Z
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@lowqualityfacts I didn't buy it when my teacher said that in high school, and now that I have a PhD in linguistics, I can confidently say that she was talking out of her ass. Attestation is not evidence of invention.
(DIR) Post #AdU9U1jiEpYWgvZfo8 by ScriptFanix@maly.io
2024-01-04T00:22:13Z
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@lowqualityfactsHigh quality fact
(DIR) Post #AdU9cl03ph5NOINrto by Hicsumus@federate.social
2024-01-04T00:23:49Z
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@lowqualityfacts Yes, as long as you make up rules of grammar to go with it and provide a full English translation.
(DIR) Post #AdU9hpBFiWbxnw2EwC by floby@mastodon.social
2024-01-04T00:24:44Z
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@lowqualityfacts now wait a minute this fact is too high quality
(DIR) Post #AdUARPWvPv6hZVuS48 by diverge@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-04T00:32:56Z
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@lowqualityfacts
(DIR) Post #AdUqg2wNskyJvlTllw by hth@androiddev.social
2024-01-04T08:26:10Z
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@lowqualityfacts Here's a tangential low quality fact:Iceland's only Nobel laureate received the prize for literature, but was notorious for using incorrect grammar in their works.