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Such words at "thy, thou, thee, ect..." are 18th century slang, and so is speaking in the third person.

Here's a fun little topic for all of you that know what I'm talking about.

Just toss replys back and forth or something, I dunno.

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In the course of my tenure at this forum on the world wide information transferer, no topic has aroused such interest in its contents then one such as this. Simply being loquatious, Thou assumes, would be the correct way to do things, Not tossing around anachronisms as if they were the glass of a fine wine

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One doth see thy point of view, however, we can not all say that this

Manner of speaking provides simple means of communicating as so many do today.

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Gentlemen, I inquire.

Who hath released the hounds?

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Who indeed, i say, who indeed.

Gentlemen, might i enquire as to where the Urban areas are?

Who indeed, i say, who indeed.

Gentlemen, i do wish to know, Who hath indeed Unleashed thine dogs?

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One can only wonder as to the answer to such an inquisitive inquiry.

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Hmm...gentlemen...I say....this thread is simply posh. Much more exuberant than the rest of these ruffian slums...

I do apologize, gentlemen, ‘twas mine hounds which hath left thine gate.

I say, the temperature about me has gotten cooler...I juxtapose the temperature has decreased by at least 20 percent in a span of 10 seconds on the dot.

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Thou's creative abuse of the thesaurus dramatically both appalls and interests me, methinks. willest thou tell me more?

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They observe me operating my means of transportation.

They are predjudice.

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Thou darest mock mine linguistic skill? Rest assured, gentlemen, I hath studied with the finest scholars in, i dare say, the millenia. Our standards are of the up most, highest caliber...

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Now one can question weather this good fellow here is being honest, because of the way thy expresses thine speech.

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"Mayhap 'tis my time for thanksgiving.."

"Mayhap 'tis THY time for thanksgiving."

--Falco Lombardi

"Yea, and thou shalt perform a barrel roll."

--Peppy Hare

"I shall surely become the food of apes if I flee not from here!"

--Slippy Toad

"Lo, I see the enemy before us! Let us do battle!"

--Fox McCloud

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