Hollywood types so rarely have anything worthwhile to say, I usually don’t pay them much attention. After all, how seriously can one take an industry that regularly delivers such edifying gems as “Knocked-Up”, “The Waterboy”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?” Still, once in a while a celebrity or two manages to escape the cultural rot of Tinseltown and stumble across a nugget of truth: Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for ‘eroding’ language

“Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us…
 
“I think we’re living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themese(sic) in his plays are always relevant.”

 
[Actually, Fiennes’ own weak syntax rather proves his point.]
 
Sorry Ralphie, as the suns sets on Western Civilization, we can hardly expect it to keep shining on Shakespeare’s genius.