Re: "two be"
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 31, 2001, 17:29 |
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> Am 31.12.01, Joe Hill yscrifef:
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> > > Oh, thou just wants to throw archaic grammar at me! :)
> >
> > I love Archaic Grammar. Thou likest it not? Dost thee find it offensive?
> > Thine own grammar is lacking.
Shouldn't it be:
I love Archaic Grammar. It likes thee not? Dost thou find it offensive? thine
own grammar is lacking.
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I thought that in Early Modern English which I presume we're talking about here,
the verb Like here is an impersonal verb taking a dative, just like the verb
Think "seem" as in "Me thinks thou dost protest to much" = "It seems to me that
you protest to much"
I know that this is the case in Middle English IIRC.
Elliott
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