• FreshParsnip@lemmy.caOP
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    21 hours 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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        17 hours ago

        The daughter is behaving herself, not behaving someone else. In English, we don’t say “behave your daughter”