[Ads-l] "Gibberish" in "All's Well That Ends Well" is revealed to be Basque/Euskara

[Nancy Friedman]

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-understand-thee-and-can-speak-thy-tongue-california-unlocks-shakespeares-gibberish/

>> In *All’s Well That Ends Well*, Parolles, “the manifold linguist,”
thinks the soldiers are Russian-speaking “Muskos.” But he’s wrong. Their
shouted response implies the correction: *No, we’re “Boskos.*” And, in case
we miss the phonological significance of “Muskos” and “Boskos,” Shakespeare
repeats the word four times: “Boskos […] boskos […] Boskos […] Bosko.” <<



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