Thread: Anachronism
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Unread 08-06-2024, 07:06 PM
Carl Copeland Carl Copeland is offline
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Originally Posted by Matt Q View Post
I dunno. "wert" is second person singular, so would have been used with "thou", and the point being made, I think, is that "thou" has become "you". You who I now call "you", I would have called "thou". So my take is that the N has substituted the modern "you" and kept the archaic verb, intentionally mixing modern and archaic for effect. For me, that works.
Ok, if it’s intentionally ungrammatical, I guess I can accept that, though I personally don’t think the effect, whatever it is, is enough to compensate.
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