this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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Antique Memes Roadshow

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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All thine base art belong to us

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Thou must construct additional pylons

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Ahh thank you

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 2 years ago

Some knave hath set us up the pomme!

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago