from the early 18th century
h/t to @jetton@mastodon.online
At least this idiot had the excuse of historical linguistics being so underdeveloped; it’s understandable he’d think language was immutable… but he’s still a total idiot who apparently thought God spoke English in the Bible instead of Latin and Hebrew.
God spoke Aramaic to Paul and wrote in Hebrew to Moses. I don’t think he thought of God speaking English in the Bible, rather than English was invented by God and man “ought not corrupt God’s language.”
These are people who insist that the KJV, perhaps history’s absolute worst translation of scripture ever, as the single solitary legitimate version of the Bible.
Conservatives are so dramatic, Jesus
I wonder if there were 18th century shitposters who turned this into copypasta but subbed in “s” and “ſ” in place of “you” and “thou”
Ye olde shitte transcribers
I wish whatever jackaſs that decided that the long ſ needed a ſtupid nub at exactly the ſame poſition as the croſsbar of the letter f in Roman typefaces a very unpleaſant afterlife. As if OCRing hiſtorical documents didn’t have enough problems already.
Alt text:
Again, the corrupt and unsound Form of speaking in the Plural Number to a single person, YOU to One, instead of THOU, contrary to the pure, plain, and single Language of TRUTH, THOU to One, and YOU to more than One, which had always been used by GOD to Men, and Men to GOD, as well as one to another, from the oldest Record of Time, till corrupt Men, for corrupt Ends, in later and corrupt Times, to flatter fawn, and work upon the corrupt Nature of Men, brought in that false and senseless Way of speaking YOU to One; which hath since corrupted the modern Languages, and hath greatly debased the Spirits, and depraved the Manners of Men. This evil Custom
HE’LL YEAH BORTHER!!!
needs the ſ in alt text to be correct
Wow, he foundf ferioif
fenflefs. Why use the weird s (f) when they have the normal s
It’s called the long s (ſ; ſenſeleſs). It’s actually pretty interesting, but unfortunately I don’t have much time to explain right now, so in short, it exists because language.
Oooooh.
English has never not been jank af
they also say fpeaking and spirits, so maybe they were pronounced different
No, they were pronounced exactly the same, but everyone who could write was a nerd
But it’s still fun to read it as if he had a fat lip.
The f-like letter is the form they used inside of a word, and it’s actually called long s: ſ. Short s was used at the end of a word and after a long s.
I imagine romans had a lot of bitching about pronouns back in the day. Mostly because bitching about pronouns is an important part of learning Latin over a thousand years later. Like seriously use whatever pronouns you want, but there’s such a thing as too many and that fucking language has too many
Thou art a grammar Prussian, good sir.
What is the source for this? I feel strong tshirt potential
I guess isekais weren’t the first to make those stupid long titles…
Wow that’s wild. I thought for sure that it was fake.
Pure, plain, and single language of T R U T H
ufed by GOD
It’s not an f, it’s a long s
Neat, I did not know that. I was just trying to make a funny since it looked like it said “oof-ed by GOD”. Thanks for sharing!
I have a shorter version. LMAO
That a halluva moufull.
Something about the typeface made me read this with a lisp
