• Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Obligatory grammar call-out XD

    “Thee” is the object form of “thou”. Although modern English makes no distinction between the two cases, sentences like “You help me” and “I help you” translate to “Thou helpest me” and “I helpest thee”. The difference is in whether the pronoun is being used as the subject or object of the given sentence. Since in your case you’re using it as the subject, you should use “thou”.

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      1 day ago

      Huh. I must be confusing it with “come ye onwards” unless you’re going to tell me that doesn’t work either.

      Edit: “Hie thee to a nunnery” is in Shakespeare and the sentence as I had it can be parsed the same way. Can you explain why one works and the other doesn’t?