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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm is that actual English usage or an author thinking in German and translating badly (there were lots of German immigrants to North America).

[-] krnpnk@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think e.g. Jane Austen was German.

[-] ValiantDust@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or Shakespeare...

Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty.

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