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A bonus episode, because it's Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!!!!!! Also, the fever of writing is upon me, and I must upload.
This could not exist without the initial inspiration of
tegerio. Period, end stop.
This could not exist without the initial inspiration of
tegerio. Period, end stop.
Category Story / All
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Gripping action & suspense, but I cringe ...
CRINGE, sir!
at this abuse of Elizabethan grammar.
Why are these Elfhamers talking like the Quakers from Uncle Tom's Cabin? (Real Quakers, if they be true students of Good King James, would never have spoken thus.)
The obsolescent 2nd-person-familiar conjugation runs thus: "THOU" is subject, always. "THEE" is object/predicate, always. Verbs end in -est, except for "art" and "wert" and perhaps a few more I can't recall at the moment ... but even those have a T at the end.
"Thou seest what I mean when I explain it thus to thee."
(Note that the famous -eth ending applies to third person conjugations. "There he goeth." as opposed to "There thou goest." "Here I go." The Kings sitteth, thou standest and I kneel.)
In the genitive (possessive) case, "THY" is subject and "THINE" is usually object, though I have seen it in phrases such as "the strength of thine arm" which I suspect is technically wrong. It should be "thy arm" but it cannot be denied that "the arm, sir, is thine." There may indeed be a pronunciation rule in play similar to the a/an gambit, which would permit us to speak of "thy melons and thine apples." It almost makes sense.
"Is this thy casket of stink-rocks? Forsooth, I declare it is thine! I give unto thee a look which verily shall chill thee unto thy dying day, thou perfidious poltroon!!"
/
CRINGE, sir!
at this abuse of Elizabethan grammar.
Why are these Elfhamers talking like the Quakers from Uncle Tom's Cabin? (Real Quakers, if they be true students of Good King James, would never have spoken thus.)
The obsolescent 2nd-person-familiar conjugation runs thus: "THOU" is subject, always. "THEE" is object/predicate, always. Verbs end in -est, except for "art" and "wert" and perhaps a few more I can't recall at the moment ... but even those have a T at the end.
"Thou seest what I mean when I explain it thus to thee."
(Note that the famous -eth ending applies to third person conjugations. "There he goeth." as opposed to "There thou goest." "Here I go." The Kings sitteth, thou standest and I kneel.)
In the genitive (possessive) case, "THY" is subject and "THINE" is usually object, though I have seen it in phrases such as "the strength of thine arm" which I suspect is technically wrong. It should be "thy arm" but it cannot be denied that "the arm, sir, is thine." There may indeed be a pronunciation rule in play similar to the a/an gambit, which would permit us to speak of "thy melons and thine apples." It almost makes sense.
"Is this thy casket of stink-rocks? Forsooth, I declare it is thine! I give unto thee a look which verily shall chill thee unto thy dying day, thou perfidious poltroon!!"
/
The King sitteth. Singular King. I make more mistakes on this soft-touch keyboard than I did on my crusty old one.
I don't think I've seen -eth used for plural. If there were multiple Kings, they would all just sit. Multiple bums don't sitteth.
We modern English speakers don't put a lot of thought into making our verbs match their subjects - not the way Romance languages do - but we still have that singular/plural thing: One King sits, but many Kings sit.
I don't think I've seen -eth used for plural. If there were multiple Kings, they would all just sit. Multiple bums don't sitteth.
We modern English speakers don't put a lot of thought into making our verbs match their subjects - not the way Romance languages do - but we still have that singular/plural thing: One King sits, but many Kings sit.
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