yvan_eht_nioj wrote:
Aspie_for_the_Lord wrote:
I marry that girl who I like who doesnt know I exist :P
Thou hast taken the words right out of thine mouth Aspie_for_the_Lord.
I probably used thine incorrectly in the above sentence but in case it's incorrect usage, the word is:my.
Mine. "Thine" is "yours" specifically when addressing someone in a familiar context. "Thou" and "thee" were also familiar (originally second person singular, while the erstwhile plural "ye" and "you" became a formal second person pronoun which could be singular or plural. Ironically, as the familiar form became obsolete, it became the more formal because of association with religious ritual. Many European languages retain the distinction between familiar and formal; this is also true of some other languages. Some languages retain separate singular and plural second person pronouns
The difference between "thou" and "thee" is that between subject and object (compare first-person singular "I" and "me" third person feminine singular "she" and "her", third person masculine singular "he" and him", first person plural "we" and "us" and third person common (not really neuter, but not specifically feminine or masculine) plural they and them.
Curiously "ye" and "you" seem to reverse this, with the former subjective/nominative and the latter objective/accusative. Modern you scarcely declines at all other than genitive your/yours. It having identical nominative and accusative forms is consistent with the behaviour of neuter gender pronouns, nouns and adjectives in Greek in Latin. However only our pronouns retain much of this declension (sigh....)
My, this is off topic of me. I also can relate to AspiefortheLord's post; though my beloved is more than aware of my existence, she is not aware of my emotions, and this is probably as well. I can not possibly marry her within the confines of the real world. I take vows of poverty chastity and obedience (in this hypothetical world - technically this does not answer Unknown's original question; on an earlier post I expressed an interest in marrying Nyssa of Traken in an improbable series of fantasy speculations. Arwen would also be nice. However I do not wish to be polygynous following the speculative polyandry of some posters here. But it's all in light-hearted fun... or IS it?) If she was not celibate maybe Hildegard of Bingen. If not twice married maybe Eleanor of Aquitaine (oh dear, dead people again!) though Eleanor scares me like the Empress Theodora (also taken) I used to like Sapphie/Saffron from AF. And PC Cass Rickman from the Bill though unlike the others named here she was unbelievably foolish. But this is all nonsense. Sorry, that while directed at myself, may be overly harsh in its reflection upon the other comments. Please disregard this letter, unless you find it interesting.
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You are like children playing in the market-place saying, "We piped for you and you would not dance, we wailed a dirge for you and you would not weep."