• @mobotsar@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    Guessing somebody just wrote it to be funny, because there are grammatical errors with the dated bits of language like “mine hand” (should just be “my hand”).

    • If a human writer was behind this using a medieval flair, I would have used “thine” or “thy”.

      The “mine” is too close to the German “mein”. Unless the writer was doing a German renaissance thing.

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        28 days ago

        Well “mine” is correct in English in e.g. “mine eyes” because “eyes” starts with a vowel sound. I don’t see any opportunity to use second-person pronouns like thine and thy in this passage; where would you have put those?