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15496084 No.15496084 [Reply] [Original]

>to "smite" is to strike someone
>to be "smitten" is to be in love with someone
what did English mean by this?

>> No.15496147

>>15496084
It's so we can use smote, which is absolutely based
Begone esl fags

>> No.15496167

smite me and I shall smite you
simple

>> No.15496174

What's the matter OP, passive form too big brain for you?

I for one think we should bring back conjugation and declension in English to filter the brainlets out. Only grammarchads allowed.

>> No.15496186

>>15496084
t. has never been lovestruck

>> No.15496224

>>15496084
Smite has a different feel than strike, anon; it is to strike someone *down*, a knockout blow, striking not with one's sword but with the flat of one's shield and then pinning the enemy with it atop its face as its head slowly sinks into the earth while suffocating to death.. To smite a village is to rape pillage and plunder it before razing it to the ground. When God smites an adversary it's as if he slaps an insect with the open flat of his hand..
To be smitten in love is to be 'bowled over' and unable to get up (without help).

>> No.15497296

>>15496147
I'm proud to be ESL, everyone in the world should be ESL. Speaking english poorly is a sign of good taste, even if unintentional, it measn taht your aesthetic immune system rejected the shit language that is *nglish and *nglish literature
even nigger clicks and clacks are a better form of communication or speech or artistic medium than *nglish

>> No.15497334

>>15496084
Because being in love is in some sense to be weakened or injured, i.e. rendered vulnerable.
This concept is not exclusive to English.
Why did the Greeks conceptualize Cupid as shooting people with arrows?

>> No.15497374

>>15497296
mega cope

>> No.15497410

>>15497374
Nobody that has the ability to read and enjoy a work in any other language that is *nglish has any need of cope. the fact that you can read, for example, BNW in any of the languages it was translated to and partake in the ideas of huxley or anyone really without torturing your own existence by subjecting it to *nglish prose and *nglish writing style is the only cope anyone needs

>> No.15497420

>>15497296
>>15497410
basado y rojo pastillado

>> No.15497423
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15497423

>Tch... Smaught for naught.

>> No.15497434

>>15497420
Thanks.
Remember borges was shit cause he thought primarily and *nglish and you should read his works in *nglish as that as how he was intended to be read
Remember that *gnlish is not worth reading
until next time

>> No.15497453

>>15497420
>>15497434
>shitskin mongrel speak
surprise surprise

>> No.15497508

>>15497296
cope harder