@[email protected] to [email protected] • 28 days agoAnd Lo, The Cat Did Hungerlemmy.mlimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1235cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•27 days agoGuessing somebody just wrote it to be funny, because there are grammatical errors with the dated bits of language.
minus-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink2•27 days agoIf a human writer was behind this using a medieval flair, I would have used “thine” or “thy”. The “mine” is too close to the German “mein”. Unless the writer was doing a German renaissance thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-226 days agoWell “mine” is correct in English in e.g. “mine eyes” because “eyes” starts with a vowel sound. I don’t see any opportunity to use second-person pronouns like thine and thy in this passage; where would you have put those?
minus-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink2•edit-226 days agoI stand corrected then. Grammar is not my strong suit.
Guessing somebody just wrote it to be funny, because there are grammatical errors with the dated bits of language.
If a human writer was behind this using a medieval flair, I would have used “thine” or “thy”.
The “mine” is too close to the German “mein”. Unless the writer was doing a German renaissance thing.
Well “mine” is correct in English in e.g. “mine eyes” because “eyes” starts with a vowel sound. I don’t see any opportunity to use second-person pronouns like thine and thy in this passage; where would you have put those?
I stand corrected then. Grammar is not my strong suit.