Re: "two be"

Joe Hill <joe@...> writes:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elliott Lash" <AL260@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:29 PM
> Subject: Re: "two be"
>
>
> > > Am 31.12.01, Joe Hill yscrifef:
> > >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> I love Archaic Grammar.  Thou likest it not?  Dost thou find it offensive?
> Thine own grammar is lacking. even
neep? .....

Elliott