Timeline for Is this correct: "Aloof the hallow things shall always be"?
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Apr 4, 2015 at 19:26 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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Oct 11, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | jocap | It's actually quite an interesting question. Probably, this was totally fine 200 years ago, but is it gramatically correct now? | |
Nov 16, 2012 at 5:11 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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Aug 17, 2012 at 21:52 | comment | added | Mitch | Yes, it would sound very awkward in any speech other than possibly oratory (which tends towards the poetic). Grammar rules are messed with in poetry, not exactly anything goes, but whatever artistically 'works'. So 'grammatically correct for a poem' is pretty loose. | |
Aug 17, 2012 at 12:18 | history | edited | JSBձոգչ |
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Aug 17, 2012 at 5:42 | review | Close votes | |||
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Aug 16, 2012 at 23:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/236249829855068160 | ||
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:40 | answer | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | timeline score: 8 | |
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:35 | vote | accept | JCOC611 | ||
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:30 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 16 | |
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:25 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Luke No, Yoda does something else, actually. This is merely putting the most important word first in a sentence, something that English has done since OE, and to this day still does — on somewhat rare occasion, admittedly. | |
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:20 | comment | added | Luke_0 | It's completely correct. It reminds me of Yoda. | |
Aug 16, 2012 at 23:19 | history | asked | JCOC611 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |