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littlemanpoet · 04-17-2007, 09:34 PM

Ah but there's a proper grammar to that kind of English. Anybody brought up on the King James Bible knows it.

'Whence didst thou came, and whence goeth thou and thy friend? I thinke that thee walkest in a wrong direction!!'

should be:

'Whence didst thou come, and whence goeth thou and thy friend? I thinke that thou walkest in a wrong direction!!' (Shakespeare would use "contrary" instead of "wrong")

But that's all quibble.

Then again, linguistics and philology are all about quibbles!

04-17-2007, 09:34 PM	#38
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Ah but there's a proper grammar to that kind of English. Anybody brought up on the King James Bible knows it. 'Whence didst thou came, and whence goeth thou and thy friend? I thinke that thee walkest in a wrong direction!!' should be: 'Whence didst thou come, and whence goeth thou and thy friend? I thinke that thou walkest in a wrong direction!!' (Shakespeare would use "contrary" instead of "wrong") But that's all quibble. Then again, linguistics and philology are all about quibbles!