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Jonathan Howard
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It's 3:45 AM. So I'm sorry for posting this.

Dan, you wrote the following in the BTQ thread:

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What reward doth thou desire for thy marvelous feat?
That would be "dost", though I would recommend using "desirest thou"; also, I think you meant "feet", because they were talking about shoes.

This is nasty of me, so someone get back at me for doing this! Please?

JH

P.S. Again, sorry for the pickiness. I'm a real pr*ck.
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Dan_raven
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You know, I just don't speak enough old English in my everyday travels in order to be hip with it.
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TMedina
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Git jiggy, Dan!

-Trevor

PS I feel like I should apologize to every English teacher I've ever had a class with.
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mothertree
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You just want a spanking. Well you're not gettin' one.
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Dan_raven
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Actually, that should have been,

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Get thou jiggieth with thy selves.
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TMedina
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Thanks Mothertree. [Taunt]

-Trevor
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mothertree
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I was talking to Jonathan.

[Wave] [Hail] Trevor.

Except you were the one who thought that looked like a medical exam, weren't you?
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TMedina
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*grins* Buy me dinner first and we'll talk. [Big Grin]

-Trevor
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Verily the Younger
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Okay, first I was just annoyed with the pinheadedness (OSC's word, not mine) of this thread. But now I have to step in and be a pinhead myself.

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You know, I just don't speak enough old English in my everyday travels in order to be hip with it.
Old English has nothing to do with it. That phrase refers to the form of the language before the Norman Invasion. It is also called Anglo-Saxon.

Old English looks like this:

quote:
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum, þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
(Opening lines of Beowulf.)

The form of English that uses structures like "desirest thou" is in fact Modern English. It's just an archaic pronoun and verb conjugation within it.

See? Jonathan Howard isn't the only obnoxious know-it-all around here. [Razz]
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I've been waiting for this thread! I'm reading Othello in school, and the definitions they give you for some of the words are even less "slang" than the original.
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Jonathan Howard
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And you know what? They still speak like that in Northumberland!

[ April 29, 2005, 03:04 AM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]
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