Gollum to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 9 months agoHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comimagemessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up1533arrow-down112 cross-posted to: mapporn@lemmy.world
arrow-up1521arrow-down1imageHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comGollum to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square168fedilink cross-posted to: mapporn@lemmy.world
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoHmm is that actual English usage or an author thinking in German and translating badly (there were lots of German immigrants to North America).
minus-square@krnpnk@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoI don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.
minus-squareValiantDustlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-29 months agoOr Shakespeare… Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty.
Hmm is that actual English usage or an author thinking in German and translating badly (there were lots of German immigrants to North America).
I don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.
Or Shakespeare…
Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty.