2006-10-30 18:31:40 · 7 answers · asked by sincere12_26 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Didn't know it had! But if it has, then some one has decided (in what I assume is a particular instance), to alter Shakespeare's original language in order to make it more understandable to those who are not prepared to make an effort to grasp the cadence and beauty of the original phraseology.
"Romeo, Romeo where are you, me old mate?"
... just doesn't have the same aesthetic and emotional impact on the ear and brain as the original wording!
Listen - I think I can hear WS spinning from here. :- )
2006-10-30 18:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by avian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know if it has ever really changed , but i do know "something wicked this way comes" is the name of a really popular book that I had to read. They also sing it in a recent harry potter movie (seen in preview) or it can be seen in shakespear.
I guess it all depends on how one would want to say it.
2006-10-31 12:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Coxie Megan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you're referring to, i.e. when it changed or who said it differently.
The original is from the witch in Macbeth--By the prickling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
2006-10-30 18:40:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Must have been originally written by a foreigner. Throw the horse over the fence some hay. Maybe it was Al Gore?
2006-10-30 18:37:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has never changed
it has always been "something wicked is coming this way?" in modern day english
maybe the americans are finaly starting to learn english
2006-10-30 18:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by exchange 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Modern english would've provoked the change.
2006-10-31 00:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by luvmuzik 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably when someone realised the sentence was wrong.
2006-10-30 18:34:37 · answer #7 · answered by graeme1944 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋