WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for February 06, 2022

Scurrilous knave!

C’mon, Shakey (or may I call you Peary?) “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break.”.

At least he didn’t invent words that already existed

Same thing happened to me. I was tossed from a poetry writing class for “not knowing English.” I am a native-English speaker with an ESL teacher’s certificate, and I was emulating my favorite poet, Dylan Thomas. I know English, but clearly the teacher didn’t know poetry.

Weren’t ALL words, from any language made up at one time or another?

He’ll SHOW HIM! LOL

Bloodstained, buzzer, champion, cold-blooded, deafening, fashionable, generous, gloomy, invulnerable, lonely, luggage, monumental, moonbeam, negotiate, obscene, skim milk, submerge, summit, worthless and many more.

So thou sayest….

Fast forward to today, where words are made up. Fleek. Bae (that one, to me, is the most annoying.) Stan. I’m sure readers have others to add to this list.

Those words are now all considered cromulent.

He didn’t have enough ink to think.

Hal Holbrook as an English teacher!

Alas and alack!

AND no one can understand what the hell you are saying!!!!

""I say they doth be on this day forward, thou great fester’d noodle-wit!""

“Shakespeare wrote this way because English was not his native language. He was Sumerian.” —Dave Barry