Use of 'tis', 'twas', 'dost' and other such terms

[booklooker]

Do MNers find it vaguely amusing when others try to use arcane English.

I don't, I find it reeks of pretentious twattery.

I don't particularly like the use of the term 'twattery' either.

And I have probably misused the term 'Arcane'

It's usually done because people think it makes them look clever or adds legitimacy to their post. It's not massively annoying but I tend to filter this sort of thing out, as I do when "ppl say megalolz m8".

Cory - TABU

I use 'tis and ''twas all the time.

What gives me major rage is when people say "I could of" or "I would of". No no no no no. It's "I could HAVE" or "I could've" etc. That really annoys me.

Sometimes it makes a sentence more amusing or more poetic.

Sometimes it makes the utterer sound like a twat.

What about t'other? Or if we go the full Dickens, t'otherest? I rather like those and sometimes those (and t'other such words of their ilk) in work emails. Some of my colleagues in the US, many of whom originated elsewhere may have acquired oddly idiomatic English over the years.