@St_Rev This is a parody site, right?
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@bornwithatail_ Not intentionally.
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@St_Rev I think this one sent me off the deep end. The layers of self-flagellating onanistic stupidity are fucking unreal. -
@St_Rev Just occurred to me, there is a lovely coincidental parallel with the Quaker insistence on calling every person "thou". -
@St_Rev Because, roughly, if Thou is good enough for God, one should show no greater respect to a magistrate. -
@St_Rev Perhaps@SamoBurja can comment on how Tumblrinas are the dread ideological offspring of Quakers and the Temperance League or whatev.
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@St_Rev Ahahahahaha http://www.morsetelegraphclub.org/library/files/html/dodge/dodge.htm … do they seriously think nobody since Chaucer used that abbrev until AAVE??!! -
@St_Rev Ye knowe eek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho -
@St_Rev That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem ; and yet they spake hem so. CHAUCER = CULTURE VULTURE -
@St_Rev Actually I recant, Chaucer's meaning seems to be "then". But how about Alexander Pope, 1725. -
@St_Rev "...a design which, tho' it can be no guide to future Criticks to do him justice in one way, will at least be sufficient..."
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@St_Rev And DC comics dialog in the 30s. IIRC Siegel & Shuster were fond of it and other abbreviated constructions.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev It's also common throughout the 19th century, albeit usually with an apostrophe. (E.g., "Tho' it light my funeral pyre... ")Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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