this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

All thine base art belong to us

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Thou must construct additional pylons

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 4 points 6 months 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.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Ahh thank you

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago

Some knave hath set us up the pomme!

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"I art"n't very good at conjugation

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

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