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Reply 1
means it doesnt it?
Reply 2
give us the sentence in which it appear, might help :p:

btw/ the flag on your avatar is upside down! - is this intentional(?) it's a distress signal apparently :smile:
Reply 3
Sorry, the sentence where it appears is:

"Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea"

And yes, now you mention it, my flag is upside down! I hadn't realised until now! Sorry, it is not intentional! :rolleyes:
It's not upside down, just wrong. The thick white bits on the bottom half are both above the red and on the top half both below the red bits.

They should both be above on the left and below on the right.
Reply 5
sergioib
Sorry, the sentence where it appears is:

"Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea"

And yes, now you mention it, my flag is upside down! I hadn't realised until now! Sorry, it is not intentional! :rolleyes:


I suppose its how they conjugated back then.

i know, thou know'st, he/she/it knoweth or summik

Bascially, it means " you KNOW all my fortunes are at sea", so mebbe he is a ;pirate2;
Although as it is not being flown from a flagpole it doesn't matter if the thick bits are on top on the left or the right, so you can do it either way.

If being flown from a flagpole then the thick white bits should be above the red on the flagpole side.

Yes I know things like this :redface:
Reply 7
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time though grow'st


I :love: that poem. I quote it only because it has a fair amount of "'st"s in it and its about the only text I know by heart.

And 'it' seems to fit the bill to me, although I had never really thought about it myself.
Reply 8
I read this two years back, although I can't say I have it memorized. Love it too :love:
Reply 9
Firz
I read this two years back, although I can't say I have it memorized. Love it too :love:


:redface: I was that sad. I memorized it in Year 9 and still know it word for word leaving Uni... Oh dear.
Reply 10
Segat has it. "Know'st" is a contraction (for metrical reasons) of "knowest", the ordinary second person present of "know" in early Modern English. It has nothing to do with the word "it".
Reply 11
pinkpinkuk
:redface: I was that sad. I memorized it in Year 9 and still know it word for word leaving Uni... Oh dear.


^Sad? I don't think it was sad. It was frickin' awesome of you to memorize lines from Shakespeare :biggrin:
Reply 12
So it means nothing, being just the conjugation of the second person of the verb in Early Modern English, that's it! Thanks all! :wink:

By the way, the sentence was taking from "The Merchant of Venice", which I am reading now for university!
Don't do it Antonio! Your ships will sink and then you are screwed! :eek:
Reply 14
It's redundant conjugation as said, end of story.

Though art

you are.