Timeline for Can you correct this “old English” quote?
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| Jan 13, 2022 at 18:35 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 2:34 | comment | added | Davislor | Some modern Quakers, up until the last century, were in the habit of using thee as their sole second-person pronoun, but they didn’t use the incorrect -eth form. | |
| Jan 12, 2022 at 18:29 | comment | added | James K | hwænne þu wenst þæt þu aert gedon, þu aert niewlice begunnen is my attempt an old English | |
| Jan 12, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1481325109394776064 | ||
| Jan 12, 2022 at 12:40 | history | edited | user163011 |
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| Jan 12, 2022 at 8:21 | history | edited | k1eran | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2022 at 6:29 | answer | added | BoldBen | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 12, 2022 at 4:18 | comment | added | Xanne | However, see this use of thee as the nominative. homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/6362Yaswen2.htm | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 20:28 | answer | added | Anton | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | Tcbr129 | As I said, not super informed on the subject but I should have known better coming here 😉. Thanks for all the help! | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:51 | comment | added | user888379 | Calling it "Old English" is asking for trouble. You're dealing with Early Modern English here. The pronouns here should be "thou", as others have already pointed out, and the verbs should be "thinkest", "art" and "hast". | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:50 | answer | added | Andy Bonner | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:45 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Thou is subject case, thee is the object case pronoun. Each thee above should be thou. | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:44 | comment | added | GEdgar | I believe "when thee thinketh" was never correct in Old English, nor in Elizabethan English. More likely would be "when thou think'st". Some dialects (Quakers or so) may have used "thee" in place of "thou". But likely no one used "thinketh" for the second person. | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:43 | comment | added | Tcbr129 | Thanks! I’m looking for an answer that would include the proper usage of thee, thou, and the suffix -eth. I’ve tried figuring it out on my own but pronouns have always been my language weakness! | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 19:36 | comment | added | Tcbr129 | I don’t (think it's Old English)! But I believe the influencer does, or believes it makes them sound more “enlightened”. I probably could have tagged it archaic or obsolete. | |
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| S Jan 11, 2022 at 19:28 | history | asked | Tcbr129 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |