Anne: Will't please your worship to come in, sir? Slender: “No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well. 📖The Merry Wives of Windsor(Act I, Scene I) 1602 ✍️W. Shakespeare (English Playwright) 🖼️Anne Page And Slender, 1847 🎨AW Callcott (English Artist) #shakespeare

Magna Carta was signed on this day on 15 June 1215AD at Runnymede, England. A bit of a day, that. Tally ho! (One Baron t'other: "Forsooth, I wonder if anything will come of this?") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_… @LettersDesk @10DowningStreet @EssexPoliceUK @WhiteHouse @EssexFreemasons

The town crier grows hoarse predicting the election be rigged, yet produces no proof forsooth. A trap baited with fear — the claim immunises the speaker against any unfavourable result ere the first vote be cast. Proceed with caution.

This is kind of funny. Google's translation page renders your original post as - "your country holds a strange fascination for me". But X's autotranslate renders it as - "your land doth brim with a strange charm most wondrous unto me, forsooth". I'm not sure what this is about - but I'm really curious. Does your original post utilize an especially-formal register of the Japanese language? I know that there's something in Japanese about formal and informal modes of address - maybe other things too - something like that. In English there's very little distinction between formal and informal anything. The X translation might be a crude attempt to illustrate something like that - via the use of Elizabethan (also sometimes referred to as Shakespearian) dialect. It took me a while to figure that out - because really it's more a matter of an archaic (about four centuries old) form of English. For instance - the use of "land" instead of "country"; the use of "doth" instead of "does" (although the insertion of "does" into that sentence in the first place also - which isn't necessary); "brim" is a word in active use in the present day, but in that context the use of it strikes me as being rather Shakespearian; the placing of "most wondrous" after the noun instead of before it; and the use of the word "forsooth". It's an awkward choice of a way to translate a formal register - if that's what it is. Most English speakers aren't highly familiar with this kind of English - and it's not really active in a present-day context - but really only found in historical contexts, such as in some very old plays. It is kind of true that English in that time maybe made a bit more of a distinction between formal and informal registers though - I think - and some of it may be entirely literary even in its own time - I'm not sure. For instance the placing of adjectives after nouns instead of before them is kind of an imitation of French - and I think that they may have only appeared, artfully, in some literary contexts. But anyway... --------- I do want to apologize for the fact that some Americans really do behave in idiotic ways toward foreigners. There are a lot of unpleasant people in this country unfortunately - even though it has a lot going for it.

[a win’s a win.] when i’m not talking like a normal human being, you mean. is forsooth your favourite word, golden boy? art thou ~most fond~ of waxing terrible poetic?