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Ay, me!
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Wherefore art thou, Brian?
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I'm over here
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Brian it doesn't mean "Where are you?"
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I'm not asking "Where are you?"
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"Wherefore" doesn't mean "Where"
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What does it mean then?
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I don't know actually
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It's like someone should do a "Shakespeare English" lesson on YouTube or something
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Brian!!!
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When people study Shakespeare,
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usually they get quite afraid or "afear'd"
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Why? Because there are all these strange new words
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Well they're not new, they're really
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really old. And now we don't really use them
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Some we do that we'll talk about
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that later
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So what do they all mean? Well let's start
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with the pronouns thee & thou. They both mean
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"You" but we use them in different
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situations. For example
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Thou that's when you is the subject of a
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sentence. For example:
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Notice how he said "Thou" or "you" ART beautiful"
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and not "Thou are beautiful"
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It's because verbs were different too.
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The verb "Are" back then was "Art". That's why "Thou ART beautiful"
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