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That intro page is wild. > Your Majesties most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant, ROBERT HOOKE.
by system2 1y ago
That intro page is wild.
> Your Majesties most humble
and most obedient
Subject and Servant,
ROBERT HOOKE.
- caporaltito 1y ago> I do here most humbly lay this small Present at Your Majesties Royal feet. That guy REALLY needed another royal grant for his research
- pixelpoet 1y agoI thought you'd made a typo with "Majesties" but no, it's really spelt that way. "Accompany'd", too. Time to go read up on that, apparently playing the Ultima games wasn't enough to learn this aspect of Old English... And yeah, wild that this is the Hooke of Hooke's law!
- incognito124 1y agoAlso known as a royal plural
- satiric 1y agoIt's a possessive, right? I.e. "Your Majesty's most humble and most obedient servant and subject"?
- Sabacak 1y agoIt's early Modern English not Old. Old English is the language of Beowulf. Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
- troymc 1y agoMicel mē þynceð þanc, þæt þū gemanst mǣl-gespreca ealdra. Wæs þū hāl.
- alessivs 1y agoUltima games incorporate archaic language constructs in their dialogues and texts, but they are fictionalized rather than historically informed. I call it "langfic" (as in "fanfic"). The French edition of U7 is also notorious for featuring old vocabulary, but does so mixing up constructs from different eras and reforms. While the effort on the English edition is much more convincing, I wouldn't bank on it as a reference of its use; instead, I would turn to more scholarly sources that examine Early Modern English in depth.