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		buzzdenver on July 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many children had Lady Macbeth? Lol, that was my first reaction too. Funny how much language has changed in about 100 years.

Izkata on July 28, 2024 | [–]

So we all used to speak like Yoda?

jhanschoo on July 28, 2024 | [–]

This word order was rare and hardly used out of poetry even then, and you would still find more flexible word order in poetry today.

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