WILLIAM TYNDALE

Everybody knows

• In the beginning is the word.
• A word by any other word is a word.
• A word by itself doesn’t do or have (anything).
• For a word to do or have (anything) takes a word-user first.

No one knows

• How a word is a word in the beginning.
• What word-users must do to make a word do or have (anything).
• Must we, the word-users, create, invent, pull out of a hat, translate, produce out of thin air, or by any other means make words exist?

English words

How did English words in the beginning become the beginning of word-users in England?
Nobody knows.

However, one of the word-users credited for making modern English words exist to begin with is William Tyndale together with his namesake, William Shakespeare. But Shakespeare merely completed the English word making job after William Tyndale aged 43 was one cold morning led by a group of catholicists from his prison cell to a nearby bridge, tied to a stake, wood piled around him, and burned to death.

Tyndale’s crime? He dared translate the book of more stories than you can remember, also known as Bible, from Hebrew and Greek words to English words.

27 years younger than Tyndale, William Shakespeare, while doing what he famously did, is credited for making up some 1,700 English words. But unlike Tyndale, this allowed Shakespeare to stay out of trouble with the catholicists and he died aged 53 of causes now considered natural. What the causes were back then isn’t known because death certificates hadn’t been invented yet.

TAKEAWAY

Though the burning at stakes of wordless animals is okay all over the world, the burning of word-users at stakes is illegal in many countries today.

On the downside, you can never be sure which country you’re in.

To avoid Tyndale’s fate, I therefore recommend avoid making any religionists angry, especially religionists of a certain type.

Religionists of a certain type may not burn you at a stake now, considered old school, but as you know from the evening news, their possibilities are infinite.

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