So we like pointing out the fact that we're smart.

It's part of our culture, it's part of our history.

It's action, not Shakespeare.

That said Shakespeare. Have you heard?

With the exception of Shakespeare, of course.

He read a passage from Shakespeare.

Do you?

Shakespeare wrote both tragedy and comedy.

He took a line from Shakespeare.

I have the complete works of Shakespeare.

You can almost have all the journalistic elements there.

He was contemporary with Shakespeare.

I know a little about Shakespeare.

Tom has read Shakespeare's complete works.

The professor is noted for his study of Shakespeare.

No dramatist can compare with Shakespeare.

You know, people go on and on about Shakespeare and it's

Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets.

Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.

I have read three Shakespearean works up to now.

I have read three of Shakspeare's works so far.

This book contains the complete works of Shakespeare.

Because you don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you?

Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, Go to bed, now!

This story, like many of the stories in my chapters, reads almost as an archetypal episode,

Shakespeare is too hard to read.

How many of Shakespeare's tragedies have you read?

We studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration.

What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fucking Shakespeare?

Shakespeare created many famous characters.

How annoying would that be? (Laughter) Must try harder.

Sure. Write it up. No Shakespeare.

Now, it turns out thew is a word.

Actually, we lived in a place called Snitterfield, just outside Stratford, which is where Shakespeare's father was born.

Are you struck by a new thought? I was.

Who thinks Verdi was a twit and Shakespeare a total asshole.

You can tell that the 3 grams are more consistent, more sentence like than the 1 gram model generated sentences, and this is an actual sentence or stage direction from the works of Shakespeare.

Talking of Shakespeare, have you ever read his work?

It's to culture that we should look for guidance, for consolation, for morality.

And at the end of my talk, you would all stand up and you would go, Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen.

And here are samples from the unigram model.

In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.

That is, if we're only looking at word sequences, what is it that we're giving up and what are we getting?

light controlled, sound controlled, great acoustics, great intimacy Shakespeare, but can also do Beckett with the skyline of Dallas sitting behind it.

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