5 Comments For This Post

1. Michael Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am

   Your use of archaic English is improper.

   “Thou wilt not let me do anything! I hate thee!”

   “Thou lettest me not do anything! I hate thee!”

2. Angus Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am

   Teenagers! What are you going to do with them? Even back then they butchered the language.

3. Ruben Says:
   January 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 am

   Thou *permittest* me not to do anything, might be more on target. Or you could say, “Thou lettest me from doing any manner of pleasant thing” since “let” can mean “hinder”.
   But if he is speaking to both he would not use “thou” or, obviously, the appropriate 2nd person singular terminations.

4. Angus Says:
   January 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 am

   Little-known hardship of cartoonists: copy editors!

5. Eddie Eddings Says:
   January 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm

   “Art thou permitting me not to goeth awayeth. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turneth about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth!”

   This is the way I usually talk after my medication kicketh in.

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