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It’s a lot of work to become King of all Cosmos

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The shape of a crown has never made more sense!

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Nitpick time: File this under “wrong usage of -eth when trying to sound medieval”. That particular usage became “-es” in modern English, and if you make that replacement in this comic (cometh → comes), it’s immediately clear that it’s wrong. “Come onward” would have been just fine, but that, of course, looks far too modern.

I mean, you could read it as being deliberately demeaning or objectifying - she is being a hard taskmaster - but I don’t think that was the intention here.

If she has permission - or dares take the initiative - to use the familiar form of address, she could try “Now, come thee onward!”, keeping both that “th” that was wrong before, as well as the syllable count. Might still be a bit weird in context, but not grammatically.

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Taskmistress** thank you very much 💅

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Verily I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.

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She does say ‘thee’ in the other panel so familiarity is established.

Anyway, even without knowing the rule, you can sense something is wrong by saying it out loud. I don’t know if there are examples of turns of phrase staying in use when they don’t flow well in spoken language?

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3 points

That’ll be me fixating on the grammar of one panel and forgetting everything else then.

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11 points

What are your house parties like.

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7 points

Bold of you to assume, etc.

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19 points

Wildeth

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9 points

Kettlebell thrown? Sweet.

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Kettlebell thrown throne

FTFY. That one confused me for a bit as I couldn’t find anyone throwing kettlebells in the comic, lol

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10 points

… and Gold is 10% heavier than steel!

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It’s a lot heavier than that! The density of steel varies as there are different alloys, but most are in the range of 7.5-9 g/cm^3

Gold has a density that’s more than double most steel alloys at 19.3 g/cm^3. Of course, that’s assuming we’re taking about pure gold, but still, gold is way more than 10% heavier than steel

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10 points

But is a kg gold heavier than a kg feathers??

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That will depend on the atmosphere.

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