This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCLXXXI/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCLXXXI/
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'Tis a fool indeed who uses “thee” where “thou” should be!
Eyewear gives not thine fool the intellect that birthed him. Truly!
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What a fool art thou thyself, who sayest “thine” where “thy” more justly serveth!
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But thou art doubly the fool, for thy article, “art,” was placed before thy pronoun, “thou.” Any true sage would know that the correct form of use would be to say “What a fool thou art thyself.” Fie!
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Ah, Wouldst that I did speak of the possessive case, thy words wouldst ring truth.
Alas, 'twas but the archaic genitive case with which I spoke!
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1stlie, yon “art” is scarcelie an article but a verb; 2ndlie, since we heere speake informallie as equalles, ackordyng to the Earlie Moderne Englysh manner, vvith loose irregulationne & gen’rous license vvaxinge poetick to iocular effect, methought - perchance I was mistaken - but methought it vvell meet to employ such verse-like playes vpon the orderyng of vvordes, claritie of tense and personne allouuyng. 
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Ach, 'tis trickerie, I byte mine hairy thombe at thee and thine!
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(Apologies, it’s just that I’ve been learning to write a plausible facsimile of Early Modern English for a project lately and it’s surprisingly hard to stop once you start. 
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Ah, yes. Early Modern English, when they whittled the number of cases down to just three (subjective, objective & possessive) and lost track of how many people were in the 2nd person.
To thine own self be true - as they wouldn’t dare say today for fear of falling foul of the grammar police! Nee-naw, nee-naw!
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But soft, what light thru yonder wyndow breaketh? 'Tis the rozzers, and i am on thee runne!
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“thee would stab upon a sir WITH spectacles, that is well played”
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