Comment by auraham

Comment by auraham 21 hours ago

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Can you elaborate on this? After skimming the README, I understand that "Who art Henry" is the prompt. What should be the correct 19th century prompt?

canjobear 21 hours ago

"Who art Henry?" was never grammatical English. "Art" was the second person singular present form of "to be" and it was already archaic by the 17th century. "Who is Henry?" would be fine.

andai 20 hours ago

Who art thou?

(Well, not 19th century...)

  • geocar 10 hours ago

    The problem is the subjunctive mood of the word "art".

    "Art thou" should be translated into modern English as "are you to be", and so works better with things (what are you going to be), or people who are alive, and have a future (who are you going to be?).

    Those are probably the contexts you are thinking of.