Gollum@feddit.de to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agoHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comimagemessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1787arrow-down116 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1771arrow-down1imageHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comGollum@feddit.de to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square200fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-squarekrnpnk@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year 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.