On 3=BF=F92=C0=CF, =BF=C0=C0=FC3=BD=C324=BA=D0, Einde O'Callaghan
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> sho schrieb:
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> > Hi, everyone,
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> > Nowadays, I study american novel.
> > but, some of words are very difficult to me.
>
> > Please let me know about this sentence.
>
> > "My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be
> > done 'twixt now and sunrise."
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> > in this sentence, I don't know what "forth and back again" means. and
> > why the sentence use callest instead of
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> > call.
>
> > if anyone knows that, please teach me.
>
> > thanks in advances.
>
> It's being deliberaltely old-fa****oned. Up to the 17th century the
> familiar second person singular was "thou callest" - the 3rd person
> singular was "he calleth".
>
> The phrase is "my journey forth and back again" - "my journey to my
> destination and back to my starting point". We still use the phrase
> "back and forth" (which you should be able to find in a good dictionary)
> - meaning backwards and forwards - but the word "forth" isn't normally
> used so much on its own in this sense in standard English of either the
> British or American variety - although there are phrases like "from this
> day forth" =3D "from now on".
>
> What on earth are you reading? It sounds like a historical novel - or
> perhaps a fantasy novel - this genre often uses very old-fa****oned
> grammar and vocabulary in order to create a mystical or mythical
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> Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
>
> Regards, Einde O'Callaghan- =B5=FB=BF=C2 =C5=D8=BD=BA=C6=AE
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I really appreciate your response.
thanks to you, I completely understood it.
thanks a lot.
god bless you.
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