WAY OT: Archaic english grammar (Was: Re: Amish Virus)

From: Chris Craft <ccraft_at_springsips.com>
Date: Thu Apr 4 14:35:47 2002

I thank thee for pointing out their errors. :) (I was tempted to do so
myself, however thou hast beaten me to the punch!)

Sincerely thine,
Chris, Retro(Computing|Linguistic) Nut (one of whose pet peeves happens to be
the misuse of any language. :)

On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:36, you wrote:
> You guys have too much free time ... and the grammar and syntax in this
> thing are all screwed up. "Thou" requires "hast" rather than "have."
> Thine = yours. Thy = your.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Amish Virus
>
> > Joe wrote:
> > > AMISH VIRUS:
> > >
> > > Thou have just received the Amish Virus.
> > > Since we do not have electricity nor computers,
> > > thou art on the honor system. Please delete all
> > > of thine files.
> > >
> > > Thank thee.
> >
> > Thou have no Stamp, returning to thy sender.
Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 14:35:47 BST