Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 days agoI’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
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
How about this phrase: “Make sure you daughter behaves herself”
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The daughter is behaving herself, not behaving someone else. In English, we don’t say “behave your daughter”