Thine??

[preus]

Okay, everybody try posting the word spellt Y-O-U-R.

Mr. Siddell has been having fun with the censoring features, methinks.

[warrl]

Yes, that hath been going on for some time now, and milord Tom doth get it wrong. The substitution should be "thy", not "thine". (The latter being more properly "yours".)

"Thy" modifieth a noun, where "thine" standeth normally alone. This is thy coat; the coat is thine. However, "thine" fitteth also as an emphatic form, oft in combination with another word: this is thine own sweet child. But one useth not the emphatic form on every occasion.

Sadly, modern English mappeth not well to yon archaic forms. Even when a writer doth scribe the modern forms correctly, bereft of such lapses as a confusion between "your" and "you're".

To wit, "thou" doth see proper use as the subject of thy sentence, while "thee" serveth as the object. Thou dost something. I do something to thee. Yet those constrained to modern forms perforce use the same word in both cases. And since the computer hath not the sense to distinguish, it cannot convert from the modern usage to the ancient.

Also please do thy conjugations correctly. "-th" and "-eth" are not for "I" or "thou", befitting only a third part. "-st" and "-est" are for "thou" only, and not when the pronoun itself fitteth not save for emphasis (see thou the first sentence of this paragraph). Plural forms - whether for us, you, or them - are as in later days. And pile not the old conjugations together with the newer: it lookseth and soundeths neither correct nor pleasant.

(Now I hope I got all that right.) (Except "lookseth and soundeths" which was on purpose.)

[Yin]

Warrl, thou doeth us a service with thy archaic grammar lesson.

[nikita]

Funny thing is, that the usage of thine, thou etc. might be easier for someone whose first language is something like german which still has those words:

thou = du
thy/thine = dein
thee = dir

and

I have = ich habe
thou hast = du hast
he hath = er hat

Regarding the your-thine replacement in the forum: I think it's funny! The only real problem is, if you want to use "your" as a plural form of "thy". But you can work around it by using a special whitespace like the non-breaking space directly afterwards:
your 
This will look like "your " but the form doesn't recognize it as "your".

PS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou

[judgedeadd]

Yоur assistance has been greatly helpful, warrl. Thanks for yоur explanations! Yоur...

[the bandit]

Awesome, warrl. <3

[warrl]

I thank ye all for this praise, for verily, 'twas a bitch to write.

[King Mir]

I must disagree with thine explanation on one point, which is that this sentence is correct, despite using 'thine' in place of 'your', because it is correct to use thine when the following sound is a vowel.

[idonotlikepeas]

The second person familiar is actually pretty common. It bothers me sometimes that English has, for the most part, done away with it.

[Casey]

Thy and thine follow the exact same rules as my and mine... I'm not sure why there needs to be a big to-do about it.

[Yin]

Hey, thou'rt back! Yay!

[coyotagoat]

More language history yay!!
Our 'you' was originally used only in the plural, thine being singular, but at some point 'thine' and 'thou' gained a derogatory connotation, used when speaking down to someone. It is used in this fashion many times in shakespeare's work!

[King Mir]

Jan 8, 2010 14:58:26 GMT Casey said:

Thy and thine follow the exact same rules as my and mine... I'm not sure why there needs to be a big to-do about it.

As I said two posts above, not quite. At least not in modern usage.

Before a vowel, thine is used in place of thy or your. Thy coat, but thine honor. My and mine used to be the same: my coat, mine honor, but this has fallen out of use.

[Casey]

So in other words... Thy and thine follow the exact same rules as my and mine. Like I said.

[todd]

I think that Tom (or whoever put that piece of programming in) should end the joke and let us be able to type the regular word again. All the "thines" draw the eye away towards that word and away from the sentence in which it's being used, which is distracting.