• tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Think you this some kind of joke?

    (What do you mean you don’t want to sound like an Elizabethan or earlier?!)

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      2 months ago

      …my lizard brain is now confused, because it really your question word order as in German to interpret wants, thus still for the ending “is” waiting is.

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        2 months ago

        I think “think you that this is some kind of joke” is more grammatically correct (from a prescriptive POV, anyway), but I’ve seen similar sentences as the above before.