A RAGTAG KING
A RAGTAG KING
A RAGTAG KING
That is how No Fear Shakespeare 'translates' "A king of shreds and patches." As though anyone uses the word "ragtag" these days for anything other than, say, scrappy underdog sports teams, or motley bands of heroes in lesser fantasy scenarios. Misfits are "ragtag," No Fear Shakespeare!
I accidentally stumbled across this information, and I felt I needed to inflict it on other people, so they could share my pain.
ETA: I looked up "ragtag" in the dictionary, just to give these guys the benefit of the doubt. Merriam-Webster gives the definition of "ragtag" as "made up of different people or things and not organized or put together well." Which…no? Under the fuller definition, we have "ragged, unkempt" (which doesn't fit either; I am pretty sure that Hamlet is not actually upset about Claudius' sartorial choices), but definition 2 reads like this:
2: MOTLEY 2 (a ragtag bunch of misfits)
(from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ragtag ).
So I think I was pretty much on target. (The definition also gives a usage example about a ragtag sports team. It really does.)
In conclusion: I hate these No Fear Shakespeare things so much.
A RAGTAG KING
That is how No Fear Shakespeare 'translates' "A king of shreds and patches." As though anyone uses the word "ragtag" these days for anything other than, say, scrappy underdog sports teams, or motley bands of heroes in lesser fantasy scenarios. Misfits are "ragtag," No Fear Shakespeare!
I accidentally stumbled across this information, and I felt I needed to inflict it on other people, so they could share my pain.
ETA: I looked up "ragtag" in the dictionary, just to give these guys the benefit of the doubt. Merriam-Webster gives the definition of "ragtag" as "made up of different people or things and not organized or put together well." Which…no? Under the fuller definition, we have "ragged, unkempt" (which doesn't fit either; I am pretty sure that Hamlet is not actually upset about Claudius' sartorial choices), but definition 2 reads like this:
2: MOTLEY 2 (a ragtag bunch of misfits)
(from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ragtag ).
So I think I was pretty much on target. (The definition also gives a usage example about a ragtag sports team. It really does.)
In conclusion: I hate these No Fear Shakespeare things so much.