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Not the most popular ship but we love them together!

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stim, stimmed? um no thanks, it's stim stam stum

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we should get rid of the possessive apostrophe in the english language

friend’s = friends buddy’s = buddys duck’s = ducks

apostrophes in english are used to denote the absence of a letter, right? well what is that apostrophe replacing? the answer is a vowel. the old germanic genitive (case of a noun marking a possessive) ending was -es or something like that. over time the vowel was lost, and “friendes” became “friend’s”, more or less. but uh.. then why don’t we mark all other instances of a deleted sound over time with an apostrophe? cause then we’d get shit like “ fre’ond’ ” or whatever. and while we’re marking historical spellings why don’t we just write the word “fish” like “*pisḱos”? idk but the loss of the vowel in “-es” is a regular, standard sound change, and i for one will strive to never use the ‘s if i can avoid it. 

you may say “but then it looks like the plural!”, to which i say “so?” It already sounds like the plural and we’re able to distinguish it just fine, what should it matter? besides, in latin the word for fish was “piscis”, and the way to say “of the fish” was also “piscis”. in latin, the nominative and genitive were pronounced the same in words ending in -is, and that’s even the SINGULAR fish! a word like “amica”, ‘friend’, has the same problem that english has. friend’s = amicae, friends = amicae, but friends’s = amicarum. the same sound coincidence occurs in latin, and they had no problem distinguishing the two. plus, from context, it would almost never contrast. 

my friends are here

my friends dog is great

you would never interpret the first sentence to mean “my friend’s are here” would you? and you wouldn’t ever interpret the second sentence to mean “my friends and my dog are great” would you? or like, without any comma or other context, would you assume the second sentence was “o friends of mine, this dog is great”? i mean yeah you could read that interpretation but isnt that a little far fetched? if your first immediate interpretation of “my friends dog is great” is equivalent to “my friend’s dog is great” then why do we need to use the bullshit apostrophe? must i remind you that with or without the apostrophe, they’re pronounced the same anyway? so you literally cannot argue that the apostrophe helps distinguish the two, because nobody says an apostrophe out loud! you already distinguish the two out loud, despite no difference in sound, so why don’t we get rid of all superfluous apostrophes? you’re next, “don’t” and “you’re”. i have a little more sympathy for those, since they are contractions of two words. but even still.

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(the old english is from beowulf)

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okay so

I was looking up lyrics from O Father O Satan O Sun by Behemoth, a real hot summer jam sure to liven up any get together. But anyway, so I was looking up the lyrics and it does the cardinal sin of “cool sounding old-tymey english”. 

“THOU THAT FLOWEST, THOU THAT GOEST!”

nu-uh. nope. You go = Thou goest. this is true. but Thou that goest =/= You that go. the “that” makes it 3rd person, and thus, -eth, not -est. This is seen in languages like German. 

I speak = Ich spreche = I speak

You speak = Du sprichst = Thou speakst

He speaks = Er spricht = He speaketh.

Modern English has lost this, but it’s not a hard concept. Thou goest, he goeth. You who goeth. Thou who goeth. Thou that goeth. Doesn’t matter. 2nd person is -st, 3rd person is -th.