PugJesus@piefed.social to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoVerily, I shake mine headmedia.piefed.socialexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1367arrow-down19
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minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoI’m not a linguist, and the timeline here is vague, but two things: We’re in the second-person singular, so “dost”, not “doth” Using the auxiliary verb (“do-support”) is a fairly modern construct at least in written English; “hatest thou” would be more likely.
Doth thou hate potaters sounds right
I’m not a linguist, and the timeline here is vague, but two things: