• snek_boi@lemmy.ml
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    2 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”?

    Something else?

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caOP
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      2 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