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| Topic | Christmas songs are reaaaaaally creepy if you analyze the lyrics. |
| dainkinkaide 01/02/18 2:12:35 PM #8: | Golden Road posted... I know it's a joke topic and all, but I've seriously never understood why it's "the Lord is come" and not "the Lord has come." Because Early Modern English, similar to modern French and German, uses the verb "to be" as the temporal auxiliary on unaccusative verbs. The same rule once applied to the past participle of "to go" ("gone"), but the commonality of saying something like "He is gone" outlasted the English language's shift to using "to have" for all past tense temporal auxiliaries, and caused "gone" to became an adjective. --- Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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