Hello you guys! I wanna teach you some propper English.
Hey yo here we go:
Excerpt from Basic Faire Language Guide, The Living History Center
Renaissance Pleasure Faire
Contractions:
T'was, T'is, is't, e'en, o'er, ne'er, twere.
Don't use modern contractions, say both words instead.
Don't use "ain't" It wasn't developed yet.
Don't use modern Americanisms, such as Yeah, Sure, Nope, Uh-huh, Y'know, Okay.
Never use sh for st sounds. Americans tend to tush a t followed by a y or i sound into a ch sound so Got you becomes Gotcha. Don't do this, on the whole Elizabethans spoke more slowly and clearly than we do.
The next hurdles is Thee/Thou versus You: English at one time had it's formal and informal modes. The formal, used to one's social superiors and strangers to whom one wished to be polite was 'You'. The informal, used to one's intimates of social inferiors was 'thou'.
"How are you?" can appropriately be said to your parents, your employer, any noble person, and person you are flattering and horses, because they are noble creatures.
Whereas, "How art thou?" would be appropriately said to your spouse, your close friends, your children, your servants, any person you are insulting, inanimate objects and God.
If you think about this list, you can see that nobody ever, calls the Queen thou; and she doesn't have to call anyone you --- unless she talks to her horse.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that thee and thou are only two different forms of the same word, they aren't. Thou is a subject of sentences, as in "What hast thou done?" and thee is the object of sentances, as in "I shall tell thee a secret."
And what about all those antique verb forms -- those ost, est and eth words? Well here are some examples:
I do
Thou Dost
You do.
He/She/It doth (or does)
I love
Thou Lovest
You love.
He/She/It Loveth
I have loved
Thou hast loved
You have loved.
He/She/It hath loved
As you can see, the antique verbs are used with the second person intimate, the third person -- never with the first person.
Here's the possessive form:
Thy is a possessive used before a constant, "Thy rod, thy staff"
Thine is the possessive used before words beginning with a vowel, "Thine eyes."
The same rules as above apply to my and mine.
The possesive for You doesn't change it is "Your."
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Source: AKERS, Kate. _Gailsden_. Proper Pronouns. Online. http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/~kate/guardians/gailsden/thees.html. 28th August 2001.
Hey yo here we go:
Excerpt from Basic Faire Language Guide, The Living History Center
Renaissance Pleasure Faire
Contractions:
T'was, T'is, is't, e'en, o'er, ne'er, twere.
Don't use modern contractions, say both words instead.
Don't use "ain't" It wasn't developed yet.
Don't use modern Americanisms, such as Yeah, Sure, Nope, Uh-huh, Y'know, Okay.
Never use sh for st sounds. Americans tend to tush a t followed by a y or i sound into a ch sound so Got you becomes Gotcha. Don't do this, on the whole Elizabethans spoke more slowly and clearly than we do.
The next hurdles is Thee/Thou versus You: English at one time had it's formal and informal modes. The formal, used to one's social superiors and strangers to whom one wished to be polite was 'You'. The informal, used to one's intimates of social inferiors was 'thou'.
"How are you?" can appropriately be said to your parents, your employer, any noble person, and person you are flattering and horses, because they are noble creatures.
Whereas, "How art thou?" would be appropriately said to your spouse, your close friends, your children, your servants, any person you are insulting, inanimate objects and God.
If you think about this list, you can see that nobody ever, calls the Queen thou; and she doesn't have to call anyone you --- unless she talks to her horse.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that thee and thou are only two different forms of the same word, they aren't. Thou is a subject of sentences, as in "What hast thou done?" and thee is the object of sentances, as in "I shall tell thee a secret."
And what about all those antique verb forms -- those ost, est and eth words? Well here are some examples:
I do
Thou Dost
You do.
He/She/It doth (or does)
I love
Thou Lovest
You love.
He/She/It Loveth
I have loved
Thou hast loved
You have loved.
He/She/It hath loved
As you can see, the antique verbs are used with the second person intimate, the third person -- never with the first person.
Here's the possessive form:
Thy is a possessive used before a constant, "Thy rod, thy staff"
Thine is the possessive used before words beginning with a vowel, "Thine eyes."
The same rules as above apply to my and mine.
The possesive for You doesn't change it is "Your."
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Source: AKERS, Kate. _Gailsden_. Proper Pronouns. Online. http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/~kate/guardians/gailsden/thees.html. 28th August 2001.