... Ok, as a foreigner, I was always puzzled by a *lot* of English spelling, but with OP Shakespearean the spellings actually seem consistent And now I understand some of the weird things about English spelling that always annoyed me
Basically English is confusing because of how much it degraded over time. I think the reason for that is because of the nature of the US itself in where we take in a lot of immigration. In time we sort of absorb various dialects and ways to pronounce things to the point where the language has become very diluted. It's just a theory, but it would explain why modern American English is so confusing even when compared to British English.
There are discrepancies between English spelling and pronunciation are due to the fact that the pronunciation continued to evolve after the spelling was standardised (this is called the Great Vowel Shift), but if you pay attention, there are consistent spelling-pronunciation patterns.
@@a_angry_bunny it's one of those false ideas of people who are not linguistically aware of languages that when they change they have "degraded" . English pronunciation may have changed but it has not degraded
Yes, I noticed that when Ben says "It rounds the experience" and wondered if that was an intentional pun in itself being that this is the *Globe* Theatre!
Thank you! In he sonnet the actor pronounced “love” like [lov], but in the last line his “loved” and “proved” transformed into [l^vd] and [pr^vd], uhm...
@@kmiranda2847 A Jim Lafferty just posted one, and maybe, if you don’t get a notification of that, you do get one for my reply: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uQc5ZpAoU4c.html*
No wonder learning shakespeak was such a bore and made little sense in school. If we first learnt how to pronounce and read it, it would have made far more sense and been far more interesting.
