What is art cold? Can pronouns be hidden and redefined in English?
Many European languages conjugate their verbs, thus:
“I am
you are”. Thou art she
is us
are you
are The
form of
the verb changes, depending on the person. In some languages, and to my knowledge, the verb form is completely different for each person, which means that the actual pronoun can be omitted. (I believe it can be reinserted for emphasis.) English doesn’t do that. To speak. When using a verb as a retentive or regular verb, only the third person singular is distinct. If we use pronouns it doesnt matter how big or small the pronouns are, but you might add some other words so it makes sense.
In King Lear, a point Lear turns to his Fool and asks him “Art cold.” “This would not be possible in current German, as the pronoun thou has been eliminated. Was speech meant in speech in Shakespeare’s time?
What does your own soul need to know?
Can we do this when expand the expanded version would be a present progressive construction. How can you make you go out? When did you say going out? Are you feeling cold? Is it cold?
Why?
Yes, this was ordinary colloquial English in Shakespeare’s day, although you were rapidly passing thou. How is art of this house created?
Is it asham’d are to look upon this beard?
Is art mad (artistically speaking)?
As th’art a man, Give me a cup. There
was also a contracted form in the indicative: — Ham
Well said; th’art a good fellow — 2HIV
Th’art a tall fellow; hold thee to that drink. TS With
almost flawless spelling, Elizabethan/Jacobean English was as likely to contract the pronoun as the verb. — TS An interesting fact (although just marginally relevant to your question) is that Elizabethan/Jacobean English was as likely to contract the pronoun as the verb be. Our it’s appears as ’tis”. our you’re appears as y’are, and our he’s appears as ‘a’s. “‘a babbled o’ green fields”. Do the apostrophes or the apostrophes get lost in the printed text?
