Anything by the Bard is a hard act to follow, but the dire use of the English language in some of today’s writing is condemned by Sir Ben Kingsley.
The Oscar-winning star of Gandhi says: ‘I sometimes get screenplays sent to me where a sequence of dialogue can be: “F*** you!” “No, no, f*** you!” “No, f*** you!” “No, no, f*** you!”
‘How wonderful that we’ve evolved to that!
‘But it’s catastrophic, really, when in the space of that many lines, Shakespeare could have given you a little kingdom of intellect and challenge.
‘“To be or not to be” now would be: “What the f***?”’
Source: Daily Mail
