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The English langugae owes more to this man than to Shakespeare.

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The English langugae owes more to this man than to Shakespeare.
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>>3341327
>being the first to do something means you're the best at it
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>>3341353
Never said he was better than Shakespeare you illiterate retard.
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>>3341327
ye olde brap poster
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>>3341353
He's right, though, Chaucer was more influential on the course of the English language than Shakespeare, as he helped solidify the London dialect as the English language. Kind of what Dante did for Tuscan.

>>3341440
I do like Chaucer better than Elizabethan stuff, personally
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>>3341353
In lots of cases it is since a first of something contains the essential characteristics that make it that something
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