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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: What I'm listening to
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:36:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-23, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

>     William Shakespeare's influence on the English language is
>     immense, with many phrases he coined still in common use
>     today. Here are 25 popular phrases that originate from
>     Shakespeare's plays:

>     15. "Brave new world" (The Tempest) - a new and hopeful period
>         in history.

Aldous Huxley has changed that.  When I now see that phrase it
popular usage, it refers to dystopic developments.

>     18. "It was Greek to me" (Julius Caesar) - something that
>         cannot be understood; incomprehensible.

That's some literary license.  The phrase is spoken by Servilius
Casca, who was one of the Roman senators that assassinated Caesar,
and as a member of the Roman upper class surely would have been
competent in Greek.

"Et tu, Brute?" from the same play is famously an invention by
Shakespeare.  Apocryphally, Caesar's dying words have been reported
as the Greek(!) phrase "kai su, teknon" ("you too, child").

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de