I often wonder what would happen if Shakespeare were in a time machine to our world today are transported. What would he think? How would he react?
Yes, Willie, you probably say to me: "You have too much time on your hands if you are thinking about donating such flights of fancy." But only after he found his feet.
You see, Willie would be removed from some of the comforts of course be blown for us. For example, that the field we go in. The doors closed all by itself ... justlike magic. If it is open, we are magically in a different place.
"What do you call this apparatus?" Willie ask in amazement.
An elevator. One might think that nothing would be a man who just landed his time machine 400 years into the future phase.
"Ah, I see. It was not magic after all. It elevated us, because there is an elevator."
This Willie guy is pretty handy with his English, is not it? But that is not it far in those days. One hundred years ago, evenfifty years old, he had almost every new word that has its roots activities (often found in Greek and Latin). But not today.
"What are the ... ... these things?"
Why, it's a TV with VCR and DVD player. Over there, it's a CD player, an AM and FM radio and an amplifier. This is a PC with a CD-RW and floppy drives, a powerful CPU, A-and C-drive and more RAM than a MAC.
"What?" Your alphabet seems a bit confusing. "
Once upon a time, the meaning of a word canalways be guessed by simply tracing the entomology of the word back to the lowest roots.
"You mean" etymology ", do not you think? Entomology is the study of insects and beetles."
I knew, dass
I took out a 'Kleenex' because my nose was running.
"But how you want your nose run?"
I guess I just like doing on a Parkway and park in the driveway. Or, as it does not matter whether we fill out a form or fill out a form ... Either way, the tax is the lastlaugh.
I offered to take Willie for a ride.
"This is more like it. There's nothing quite like a horse under its own soil."
No, no, no. We ride horses, no more. This is a way to deal with these barbaric majestic animals. Now we drive cars ... and kill the horses from the exhaust.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
Just have a seat in the BMW, Willie, while I was on the AC and rev up the RPMs on from this old V6. Before you know it, we will do 100mph down the 102nd
"More letters and numbers. Have words become redundant in the future?"
Pretty much. As life became more complicated, words got more and more complicated. Soon it was taking several minutes just to pronounce a single government agency. So real word groups had to be replaced by abbreviations - The first letter of each word. Give me a candy.
"What does CANDY stand?"
Candy, actually. But maybe I should just leave old Willie guess.For it is just so much to discover in this brave new world. How, why are so few sundials around. And why some people sleep on the street, while other climb 34 stories to an office tower above to sleep at their desks. And how do they shy away from the liquor bottles for the airlines.
"What is an RSVP? And ASAP? And TLC?"
I had to explain just the right way to find him, that all these crazy letters actually made some kind of sense.
Internal DepartmentOverhaul income transfer system.
"Ah, idiots. Well, I understand!"
