Timeline for Is the Christmas carol “We Three Kings” intentionally ungrammatical for artistic reasons, or does it use archaic grammar?
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| Dec 28, 2020 at 4:08 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | @SvenYargs At my elementary school, "Blowing us all afar" was replaced with a sudden silence, followed by "We two kings of Orient are." | |
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| Dec 27, 2020 at 17:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Sven I'm sure (rare) that the first line is a complete independent clause, SCV (the complement or whatever being here the prepositional phrase). | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Good answer. On the other hand, the corrupted version that kids used to sing in the schoolyards of Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1960s really was ungrammatical—at least in the crossover from the first line to the second: "We three kings of Orient are / Tried to light a rubber cigar / It was loaded and it exploded / Blowing us all afar." As a first-grader, I thought that the three kings were claiming to be from a place called "Arientar," which would have solved the syntactical problem. | |
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| Dec 27, 2020 at 8:03 | history | answered | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |