Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "RobWords" channel.

Asked what I thought about the 1996 Romeo and Juliet film I said it was quite good but the dialogue was poorly written. I've had it in school as part of learning English, I've read two plays and a few sonnets, and it's all nice and great within the context of literature of that time, but "the most influential cultural figure of all time", how so? Is he more influential than Dante, Cicero, Goethe and Cervantes, if we limit cultural figure to European literature? What if we go beyond literature and/or Europe? Yes quite a few of his 40 plays are still played, and played around the world the past century. But are plays that influential? Did those plays change the world or something?
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@p1dru2art That's what all writers do, one better than the other. There seems to b a broad consensus he did that very well and he has quite a number of people who revel in his brilliance. But that is the same with any great author, with Shakespeare it seems to be the people who don't read him or visit his plays who are most sure he is far above anything else.
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It was called that in the Netherlands too, to distinct it from for example the Walloon reformed church. It originates in Germany just over the border too. Also there were a lot of Germans among the settlers.
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@RaoDGuitar True, but the Germans and also the Dutch can compound way further than two, and that matters.
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@iTa66 Duende in Spanish? Sehnsucht in German? These are not equivalents but overlaps because it's sucha a specific accent on a part of the feeling that has such a strong relation to music, I presume at least because I don't speak Portuguese and I only know the word through fado. Lot's of musical styles have a word for the feeling that no one has really a grasp of but has a grasp on them. Duende, soul, swing, groove, funk. You can feel it put you can't really put your finger on it.
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Interesting thing is that the Dutch loan word of flaner, "flaneren" means strolling to be observed rather than to observe. When words cross borders they tend to take a more specific or a different meaning, and in this case that has to with how the French were percieved I guess.
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@KarlEchtermeyer Most people read Shakespeare in school as part of English class. I don't believe many people read it in their own time. There are real fans of course, but so has Dickens. I admit I was never particularly blown away by it, but I don't want to downplay his importance. It's a monument, the monument, of English literature but that is also because schools and theatres around the world put him on a pedestal and have been doing so for very long. His importance seems institutionalized rather than that he enjoys popularity among readers around the world. Het didn't create a new genre if I am not mistaken, nor did he social criticism that changed the way people look at the world. So for me, his importance stays within the confines of English literature.
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@alfonsmelenhorst9672 It wasn't a country of course, only the Dutch Republic became a country that early and that explains the NetherDutch getting the name Dutch in English. Also the Statenbijbel did a lot for establishing Dutch as the common language for the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands usually called the Dutch Republic.
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Is the same thing but also not. I think taking a latin base kind of formalizes it and makes it more abstract, if we look at all the new words for new animals from the age of exploration we see the English make it sound like people who knew latin studied it, while the Dutch named them Dutcher and more grassroots. So the English have hippopotamus, turtle/turtoise and platypus, the Dutch have 'nile horse', 'shield toad' and 'birdbeak animal'. I you'd heard the word, you'd recognize the animal when you saw it. For Latin speakers that would have worked the same with hippopotamus, but not with English speakers. So I think it is also about who got the naming rights, the 18th century English upper class bioligists, or the 17th century sailors from Dutch ships, many of which were of other Germanic origin.
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@ Yes, and that's what you often get with using words from a foreign origin, contrary to the Romans for themselves, you 'elevate' them, disconnect them from the people and their language somewhat.
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@riczen6652 I always interpreted as "with Tony's " an "avec" with a location, 'at' maybe. It's a "with" with a host and a guest.
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