>"What meanest thou, O, sleeper! arise!" WHY THE

WHY CAN I SPEND HOURS DUNKING A BASKETBALL AND NEVER HAVE ONE DUNK BE GOOD AS ONE OF LEBRON'S CASUAL DUNKS HOW DOES HE DO IT

Because you can't into archaism

>>9592451
nice try but melville wasnt a 7ft black guy duh

>>9592432
>thou
baka desu senpai

>>9592459
"Thou" is correct, as it is performing the action "mean."

>>9592432
He lifted that from the KJV

Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

>>9592476
I thought it was phrased more properly in the bible, and was different through the vernacular of the chaplain
Guess I'm the fool for not having read the KJV though, especially for Moby-Dick

>>9592459
why would thou be wrong wth?

>>9592451
fpbp

>>9592464
>>9592536
thou is pretentious horseshit

>>9592476
melville btfo

>>9592727
t. uncultured swine

>>9592755
t. pseud

>>9592727
Just the "thou"? The only word there not archaic is "what". Compare NRSV:

>The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”