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 the eagle villain  30 Jan 18 9.47pm |
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As diabolically w@#k as the unfunny "Sainsbury's car park" comments. I cringe every time someone responds with "me thinks" to a post. It's fuel for the "Palace Nigel's" fire - stop it! It makes you sound like Jeremy from Peep Show!
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hastingseagle67  30 Jan 18 10.02pm |
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Andros Townsend has had a hair transplant , me thinks.
has resisted writing a single post on the Ross McCormack thread !!! |
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| YT Oxford 30 Jan 18 10.04pm |
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It’s methinks, methinks; not me thinks.
Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes) |
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johnno42000  30 Jan 18 10.06pm |
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Methinks that Bakary hath a very strange hairstyle. Edited by johnno42000 (30 Jan 2018 10.06pm)
'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more' |
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boo909  Figeac 30 Jan 18 10.10pm |
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I must to the barber’s, monsieur, for methinks I am marvelous hairy about the face.
Bangell - If Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus today, it would be about Jason Puncheon eternally trying and failing to pass with his right foot. |
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| johnno42000 30 Jan 18 10.16pm |
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Forsooth 'tis dawning on me that we showeth too much respect to our opponents, notwithstanding and not withholding all and yet nothing of our fragilities. Methinks the irksome wretch, Moyes be his name, casts a long cloud upon our mighty vessel. Edited by johnno42000 (30 Jan 2018 10.18pm)
'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more' |
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| dannyboy1978 30 Jan 18 10.37pm |
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Me thinks he looked like a goat
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 30 Jan 18 10.42pm |
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me thinks you need to get laid
This was once a quality forum.... |
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| GlaziertoEagle Coventry 30 Jan 18 11.04pm |
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Originally posted by hastingseagle67
Andros Townsend has had a hair transplant , me thinks. Me thinks the same
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| the.universal 30 Jan 18 11.33pm |
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Originally posted by the eagle villain
As diabolically w@#k as the unfunny "Sainsbury's car park" comments. I cringe every time someone responds with "me thinks" to a post. It's fuel for the "Palace Nigel's" fire - stop it! It makes you sound like Jeremy from Peep Show! Who made you the Nigel who polices sayings on the hol?
Vive le Roy! |
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| the eagle villain 31 Jan 18 12.31am |
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If people want to sound like Jeremy Clarkson so be it. Go put it on your cool wall.
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chateauferret  31 Jan 18 2.35am |
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"Methinks" is a construction which comes from the OE verb thyncan, which didn't mean to think, but to seem or appear. To think in Old English was a quite separate verb thencan. The difference between the two verbs is the vowel, y versus e, a change termed an Ablaut grade. The Ablaut in this case denotes causation, i.e. thencan "think" - thyncan "cause (someone) to think", i.e. to appear or seem to someone. English now (since Chaucer's time) uses word order rather than changes to words themselves to identify the grammatical relationships between words in a clause and we now expect the first word in a sentence, preceding the verb, to be the subject. "Methinks" began to be read as "I think" because whatever goes first and before the verb is taken to be the subject. Use of this form today generally derives from its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much". Shakespeare also used the preterite "methought" (e.g. in Macbeth). Were it not for the continuing popularity of this playwright the forms would have passed into history. Making of causatives using the ablaut grade is preserved in Eng. "sit" / "seat" (to cause to sit), and cognate Ger. sitzen (to sit) and setzen (to seat). Such pairings were ubiquitous in Proto-Germanic.
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