Pedantrie for the Middle Ages Mumsnette threade.

[BelfastBloke]

I feele lyke thys are incorrecte:

"Doth my arse looketh bigge in this? "
and
"Thou should beateth her in the village square"
and
"My lady approacheth me recently in the morrow to enquire ofeth my sack of accoutrements"

What grammatical rules are being breech'd?

Sire, I haveth not the gifte of education but did worry that mine arse looketh vaste in this vestment.

My lady, within the second, there is an oversight I fear. One mayn't not refer to 'village square' unless one has an experience grander to know of life in far of lands, in cyties such as Landaarntown.

Mayhap thy comments shouldst have been raised upon sayd threade?

'tis Arsie and unbecoming of thine owne self to beginne a threade to calle the attention to other personnes mishapps in grammer.

Mediaeval grammar:

Shouldn't it be:
"Doth my arse look bigge in this?"

and
"Thou should'st beat her"?

There are too many "th"s being added on where notte required. But am not sure why.

And "" is justte Violette Elizabeth Botte.

Verily, varlet, thine arse doth indeed look bigge.

Methinks thou needest this

Thank you, Rusty Bear!

People on this threade are focussing on the content rather than the sentence-construction, which is what Pedants' Corner is about.

The problem lies within the conjugation of verbs in thy examples, if I may permit myself to address a stranger in such a familiar fashion! 'th' and 'st' may only be used on verbs where the present singular doth take the inflected form.

For the third, verily do mine eyes water. 'recently in the morrow' is shurely the province of mages gifted with time travel!

And my problem lies with the autocorrect on this newfangled iPhone of mine. I cannot find a medieval dictionary for all I have tried my damnedest.

Prithee, might one not be entreatied thus: "Looketh my bum bigge in this, withall?"

Looketh my bum bigge in this, yea, for one's bum 'looketh' indeed.

Withall I sincerely doubte, being a preposition or adverbe.

An adverbe? Thou dost interest me strangely, though if truthe be known I did introduce that very word by way of, as 'twere, a frippery of the tongue; a frilly valance, one may have it, on the bed of language. I shall take note, bum, looke, and bigness withall.

A pox on your adverbes. I am a graduate of ye olde schoole de parchment and do not welcome your pedantry. Desist foul wench. Or ist thou be manneth, foul wastrel.

My very Soule roffleth mightily at thine merriment upon thys threade. I maketh muche labour to contain mine urine.

Ah ye Pedants! Thou art alle flaunting thine middle-classed ysmuggery, art thou notte?
Surely this be an Internette Forum and grammar mattereth not a jotte. Verily nay a tittle neither. We have not alle benefitted from ye Top Scribes Learning.

(I play ye Deville's Advocate, mark...)

"Desist foul wench. Or ist thou be manneth, foul wastrel."

This be the Corner of Pedants. Surely thou meantest "or IF thou be a MAN..."?

What is "manneth"?

It's Spanish for "manners".

Manneth - a lowly type of creature with a penis. Natch

I am happy to farte on this thredde if any person wish it?

Begone foul stench of feline apparel!

"'tis Arsie and unbecoming of thine owne self to beginne a threade to calle the attention to other personnes mishapps in grammer."

"Ah ye Pedants! Thou art alle flaunting thine middle-classed ysmuggery, art thou notte?"

How is it 'middle-classed' to be interested in mediaeval grammar?

I'm just wondering what the rules are, because the more I read of that thread, the more I was uncertain.

not Middle-classed, it's Middle-age, surely???

(not verye goode at ye Mediaeval talk as yet....)

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