Gollum@feddit.de to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 2 years agoHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comimagemessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1788arrow-down116 cross-posted to: mapporn@lemmy.world
arrow-up1772arrow-down1imageHow to say the number 92i.imgur.comGollum@feddit.de to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square196fedilink cross-posted to: mapporn@lemmy.world
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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-up3·2 years agoI don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 years 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.