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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Think you this some kind of joke?

(What do you mean you don't want to sound like an Elizabethan or earlier?!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

...my lizard brain is now confused, because it really your question word order as in German to interpret wants, thus still for the ending "is" waiting is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think "think you that this is some kind of joke" is more grammatically correct (from a prescriptive POV, anyway), but I've seen similar sentences as the above before.