A good things about modernity is that you don’t have annoying people going around starting sentences with “verily I say unto you...”
That must have been really tiresome. You just want to chill after a long day chopping wood and some dude wants to verily say things unto you
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There’s a certain variety of New Englander who will preface everything they say with “I shit you not...”
Strikes me as a modern equivalent.
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Actually, "verily" just means "truly," or more to the point, "actually." So people still do it. Like I just did.
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Texas State Rep Jason Villalba (R) occasionally verily says stuff unto us e.g., "verily I say unto you today [yes, actually today], if we do not stop this man now, today, over 500 days into his presidency, we will be equally culpable in what he has planned for our great nation"
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An even better thing about modernity is sort of like, you know, corporate speak that’s part new age word vomit, management consulting verbal diarrhea, assorted trigger warnings, and, last but not least, ending sentences with “so”, so.
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By my troth, this true! Learning my lines for “Much Ado About Nothing” and half of them are archaic exclamations.
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This is the not listening attitude which gave rise to people having to start "verily verily"
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