[Klug-general] Fwd: A request for stories for Jono's book

[Mike Evans]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> I couldn't agree more, and I thought I was alone.
> 
> MikeR
> I used to have a handle on life - but it broke.
> 
> 
> rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>> Seek that THOU Might Know surely - Sorry - I can tolerate bad spelling, if the meaning is clear. Even Shakespeare didn't worry to much about that ; but grammar is the foundation of the language essential for writing books!
>>  Just  a GOM with a bee in his bonnet!
>> Rich
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>> Seek That Thy Might Know
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One wonders in any case about the point of using the archaic second 
person singular.

1.  If it were a quotation then naturally...  However, it does not 
appear to be.  The nearest I am aware of would be the biblical "Seek and 
thou shalt find" which is an altogether different proposition - and 
frankly more meaningful.

2.  That it is a mis-spelling of They rather than a grammatical slip 
substituting the posessive wodgamecallit (pronoun?) for the subjective 
one.  'Seek That They Might Know' might be a suitable motto for a teacher.

3.  That it is an affectation, attempting perhaps to lead us to 
conclusions about the education or philosophical elevation of the 
author.  Undermined somewhat by the error that MikeR and Rich point out, 
and also, I suspect, by the incorrect conjugation of the verb 'might'. 
Perhaps someone with a more classical education than my comprehensive 
school standard can say, but I have a feeling that it ought to be 
'mightst' or 'mightest'.

Fun this, isn't it?  I wonder if the Windows 'Community' has this sort 
of discussion.  Probably too busy installing the latest virus scanner or 
picking through the remains of their registry.

Mike