Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes February 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 11 February 2012 01:03:18AM *  1 point [-]

That's a little much even for me, and I know what you're talking about.

Edit: Ok, so apparently people think it actually is important to phrase it "hast thou a blog". Shows what I know.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 February 2012 02:52:47AM 1 point [-]

I would think it should be "Dost thou havest a blog?"

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2012 04:57:41PM 2 points [-]

I'm voting for "Hast thou a blog?" if one wants to use period English, but I'm going by feel. Does anyone actually know?

Comment author: gwern 18 February 2012 05:38:06PM 1 point [-]

May I suggest looking in period literature? If I Google Books "Hast thou a ", I see in the first page of results hits from John Bunyan, 1678-1684 and William Shakespeare, c. 1591, among lesser lights.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2012 05:48:43PM 1 point [-]

Good point. Googling "Dost thou havest a " turns up two results, one of which is Eliezer's comment.

On the other hand, my instincts aren't perfect. I'd have bet that "havest" wasn't a word, but it is. "Hast" is a contraction of "havest".

I was wondering whether the problem was that "dost havest" is redundant, but "havest thou a" doesn't turn up anything period.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 February 2012 06:31:46PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, “dost thou havest” would be much like “does he has”...