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Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by pixelpoet on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:41AM (#44233819)
I thought you'd made a typo with "Majesties" but no, it's really spelt that way. "Accompany'd", too. Time to go read up on that, apparently playing the Ultima games wasn't enough to learn this aspect of Old English...

And yeah, wild that this is the Hooke of Hooke's law!

Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by Sabacak on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:52AM (#44233885)
It's early Modern English not Old. Old English is the language of Beowulf.

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by troymc on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:30AM (#44236566)
Micel mē þynceð þanc, þæt þū gemanst

mǣl-gespreca ealdra.

Wæs þū hāl.

Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by incognito124 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:45AM (#44233856)
Also known as a royal plural
Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by satiric on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:02AM (#44237672)
It's a possessive, right? I.e. "Your Majesty's most humble and most obedient servant and subject?"?
Re:Micrographia (1665) [pdf] by alessivs on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:25AM (#44237181)
Ultima games incorporate archaic language constructs in their dialogues and texts, but they are fictionalized rather than historically informed. I call it "langfic" (as in "fanfic"). The French edition of U7 is also notorious for featuring old vocabulary, but does so mixing up constructs from different eras and reforms. While the effort on the English edition is much more convincing, I wouldn't bank on it as a reference of its use; instead, I would turn to more scholarly sources that examine Early Modern English in depth.