Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself

snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think its referring to the phrase “Behave yourself” - who else am I gonna behave?

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  • marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is why I often look at my 6 year old son and just say “Behave!”

    He knows who I’m talking about.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, exactly

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m talking about the phrase “behave yourself”. In the English language, there is no such thing as behaving someone else, only behaving yourself. I don’t know if there’s another language where “behave someone else” makes linguistic sense

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  • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How about this phrase: “Make sure you daughter behaves herself”

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    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The daughter is behaving herself, not behaving someone else. In English, we don’t say “behave your daughter”

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