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> the music likes you not. > You don't like the music Shouldn't it be "the music like you not"? Since the music is the object and thus no 's' added to the ver
by rightbyte 2y ago
> the music likes you not.
> You don't like the music
Shouldn't it be "the music like you not"? Since the music is the object and thus no 's' added to the verb for 'you'?
Also, wouldn't accusative make the word order arbitrary at the time written?
- trealira 2y agoNo, because at that time, music was the subject. The subject-object relationship could be inverted for the verb "like". You can think of it as though "like" were a synonym for "please," with "it likes me" being analogous to "it pleases me." No one uses the word "like" like that nowadays, of course.
- rightbyte 2y agoAh ok thanks.