
| Anonymous #590580 9 months ago |
This will prove useful. |
| elementofchaos7 #590592 9 months ago |
>old_english
I'm pretty sure it's actually "Early Modern English". |
| AdrianBrony #590600 9 months ago |
thou and you are actually not interchangable. thou is a second person singular. (you in particular. I am pointing at you)
You, when used in that context, is actually more like "you all." referring to a group. |
| gasmaskangel #590650 9 months ago |
"thy face is gay"
That made me crack up for some ungodly reason. |
| Hellfire #590671 9 months ago |
Luna must have driven non-native English speakers nuts. |
| Jackarunda #590724 9 months ago |
@Adrian
In english there's no difference between you singular and you plural. I suppose you're right, but it wouldn't strike me as weird if someone used thou to refer to a group a people. |
| AdrianBrony #590734 9 months ago |
#590724
I'm not talking about modern modern English. I'm talking about English as it was in the 17'th century |
| Anonymous #590746 9 months ago |
Besides what AdrianBrony said, "thou" is not genitive. That's what "thy" (or "thine" when preceding a word beginning with a vowel) are for. Furthermore, "art" is not the only irregular form, c.f. "have" ("hast"), "shall" ("shalt") and "will" ("wilt"). |
| AdrianBrony #590778 9 months ago |
tl;dr: if you thought the english language is a clusterfuck NOW... |
| Anonymous #590846 9 months ago |
I red it all in her voice. |
| MetalHooves #590911 9 months ago |
DOST THOU IMPLY THAT I LACK THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRADITIONAL ROYAL CANTERLOT PROPER GRAMMAR? VERILY THOU ART INCORRECT. |
| outside998 #590946 9 months ago |
@Hellfire: I am a non-native English speaker, and I understood everything. But I speak English for years now. |
| Anonymous #590970 9 months ago |
It'll be interesting to see her in future episodes. Hopefully with Rarity in them. |
| Jackarunda #591049 9 months ago |
if y'all knew so much more about this than me then why didn't you make it...? Just trying to help. |
| Anonymous #591548 9 months ago |
Hold on, I thought Sweetie Belle was the dictionary? |
| Anonymous #591600 9 months ago |
2011= 400 years of King James Bible
2011: Luna speaks like the King James Bible Coincidence? |
| tygerbug #591609 9 months ago |
"He walketh" = "He walks."
"eth" = "s" People are doing a terrible, terrible job of writing in archaic English. Read some Shakespeare sometime. |
| Anonymous #591632 9 months ago |
Who is the foal who called it "old english?"
Old English was a good 700-800 years before this. Ful oft þæt gegongeð, mid godes meahtum, þætte wer ond wif in woruld cennað bearn mid gebyrdum ond mid bleom gyrwað, tennaþ ond tætaþ, oþþæt seo tid cymeð, gegæð gearrimum, þæt þa geongan leomu, liffæstan leoþu, geloden weorþað. Fergað swa ond feþað fæder ond modor, giefað ond gierwaþ. God ana wat hwæt him weaxendum winter bringað! |
| Anonymous #591641 9 months ago |
Now that you mention it, Luna shouting, royally in Old English would be even more awesome than the King James english.
I wonder if she talks dirty in bed like that... <3 |
| TooOldForThisShow #591662 9 months ago |
^
"Oh, Luna, whisper sweet nothings in my ear." "WE LONG TO FEEL THY MEMBER BETWIXT OUR ROYAL THIGHS." |
| Zancrow #591719 9 months ago |
^
Well, some people get turned on by ear bleeding, I suppose... |
| ryebread #591770 9 months ago |
I see some relationship in German and Low German in this one. |
| Anonymous #592015 9 months ago |
"Mr. Thou! Mr. Thou!"
"No. Mr. Thou is THAT one. Over THERE! I'm getting sick of this! Thou art such a pain in the...! Confound it all! I'm starting to talk like you!" |
| Anonymous #592634 9 months ago |
tygerbug said: I don't see what your point is, unless you think there's something wrong with "He walks to work every day." |
| Mattatatta #592967 9 months ago |
My head hurts... Thanks for reminding me of the several Shakespeare plays we covered in English, it's all coming back in a huge wave and I'm getting a headache. |
| Anonymous #595733 9 months ago |
@Hellfire: no, usually non-native English speakers (like me) who watch stuff without subtitles have at least a passing knowledge of Shakespearian English pronouns. Because we paid attention in our English classes. |
| Anonymous #599648 9 months ago |
Anon#592015: Final Fantasy 6 reference? |