It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself

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• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “If you don’t behave, I’ll make you behave!” - My mom

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have never heard that phrase

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• Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This has “I’ll shit your pants” energy

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In spanish it could be translated as “comportarse”

  Yo me comporto Tú te comportas Ella se comporta Nosotros nos comportamos Vosotros os comportáis Ellos se comportan.

  I think they are called reflexive verbs. Because they have to be conjugated with reflexive pronouns.

  If not it would be.

  Yo comporto Tu comportas Ella comporta …

  Which sounds weird as hell. So I suppose you are right also in Spanish.

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• Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actors aren’t real they’re a deep state psyop

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• waitaminute@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disagree. She needs to behave herself. He needs to behave himself. I want to behave myself. They need to behave themselves. We need to behave ourselves. It needs to behave itself.

  So yeah. Can be done.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those are all examples of the subject behaving themselves, not some else

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• toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made sure he was well behaved

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• tychosmoose@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Per Etymonlone:
  In early modern English it also could be transitive, "to govern, manage, conduct."

  Comport seems similar in both meaning and reflexivity.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can also behave _my_self

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d argue tranqilizing someone is a form of “behaving” another person

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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As in “nobody acts like you”?

  Or as in “nobody’s words but your own words can guide your behavior”?

  Or as in “nobody but you can describe your own behavior”?

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, exactly

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