this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All thine base art belong to us

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 21 points 1 year ago

Thou must construct additional pylons

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically, it would still be are, the plural indicative of (to be)

Doth is third person singular indicative of (to do), a different verb entirely, as in: he doth protest too much.

So we were both wrong.

Unless… the original meme’s grammar was so bad that it used are in the second person singular sense. In which case, art is correct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh thank you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Some knave hath set us up the pomme!

[–] Transcendant 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I art"n't very good at conjugation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even on an internet full of shitty attempts at early modern English, this one stands out.