[Confucious is sex]

Standard English is a dialect. It is quite dangerous to think of it as a benchmark or norm of English, because that necessarily follows that other forms are deviated from it, which is not only incorrect, but also anachronistic. What we now know as Standard English was first established by Chaucer, not Shakespeare, and it was thought then as a base form of language that was used by the ill educated. It was, however, the dialect that, originating in London, was adopted by government and commerce and, therefore, became understood nationwide. It exists not as a prestige form, then, but as a universally comprehensible form. Prestige forms generally employ more latinate lexis and convoluted sentence constructions.
Shakespeare rules ok.