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Doth anyone know where to find a tutorial on Archaic English on the web? Free. It's kind of interesting. If thou knowest, please reply.
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I'd also like to know where to find one.
I think there's a translator out there where you can type in your phrase and it'll make it all old fashioned. Dunno about a tutorial. Also it's Dost not Doth i think.
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I wouldn't be too surprised if there's more than one word like dost / doth. It's a bit more like foreign languages are now - complicated. There's polite versions of You, like dingbats said, Thou and Thee - Can't remember which one's which, and probably all sorts of stuff. The only tutorial I know is reading some shakespeare .
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Thou = You
Thine = Your
-ith = added as a suffix to several verbs.
That's all I can remember right now. Another good place to find some of these is to play Chrono Trigger. Glenn is just full of the stuff.
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-eth is added instead of -s on 3rd person singular. -est is the same thing but on 2nd person singular. Therefore, it doth, but thou dost.
Anyway, I'm not too sure about the -eth thingy, so I'd like to know where to find a tutorial. If anyone knows anything about this, post it here!
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Lesson of the day: dictionary.com includes suffixes.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=-th
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=-est
I'm going to try searching Google for "Ye olde English".
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Here is a good article about 'thou' and 'thee'. It does not cover ye/you or the -eth suffix, though. If anyone can find an article about that, I would be glad, and other people would too.
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Just google it...
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Don't you think I've tried that?
Oh, sorry, I mean:
Thinkest thou not I have tried that?
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Well, no i did'nt becouse im sure there woulda been atleast one thing about it.
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Yep, but I want to know more about it. So if you know any sites, post them here.
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Ok then, well i guess sombody could help...
what about going to a library or somthing?
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Thank you! By the way, do you know if the -eth suffix should be added in past tense too? That's the case with -est.
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