Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks agoHow about this phrase: “Make sure you daughter behaves herself”
Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks agoHow about this phrase: “Make sure you daughter behaves herself”
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The daughter is behaving herself, not behaving someone else. In English, we don’t say “behave your daughter”