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Conlangery SHORTS #04: Episode 13 “Outtakes”

Conlangery Podcast

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Did You Do a Linguistics Degree First and Then Start Inventing Languages?

The imperative in Middle English is just, the singular imperative is just the verb stem. And the plural ends in TH. You can use the plural for- If you were speaking to several people. Or at least Chaucer makes this distinction. I don't know if it was Tilshu and King James, but any case. But no, kids do this all the time. Right? They read a little Chaucer and suddenly they're trying to, or Shakespeare, and they’re trying to speak this way and they- No, no, no, doff and dust mean different things. Yes.

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