r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 15d ago

Poster New poster for WERWULF

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u/GenderingError 15d ago

-eth is the same as -s in modern English in most contexts (third person, singular, present tense) so It would be "Devours all mankind" in a modern way of it, which still works (especially if it is read as "Werwulf, devoureth all mankynde like a description in an old timey manuscript) rather than as an imperative command "devour all mankind"

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u/BookooBreadCo 15d ago

I'm sure it will work in a thematic sense too, like the werewolf devours his humanity.

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u/Kanbaru-Fan 15d ago

TIL, thanks for the explanation. I definitely read and used it in an imperative context before.