Quote Originally Posted by Breakbeat View Post
IMHO, Urianger doesn't have exclusivity when it comes to 'doth'. It's uttered by other NPCs that aren't Urianger at other times. This would be why the other party members "act like nothing is wrong," because 'doth' is a word that might come out of any character's mouth in FFXIV.
You'll need to provide examples of the other characters using "doth" rather than does/do, because the vast majority of characters do not. A few supporting characters like the dragons and other ancient beings will use it, but that's because they consistently speak on the same level of archaic that Urianger does, using "thou" and conjugating words, but that's not normal language.

As I see it, the average Eorzean's language is one step removed from modern English and Urianger is two steps. He's still speaking in an old-fashioned way by the other characters' perception, but it's not as distant as it is to us.


Quote Originally Posted by Breakbeat View Post
Therefore this is perfectly fine:
- He does not appear to have been tempered. (He doth not appear to have been tempered.)
See, that's my thing. It's a correct construction in modern English but I don't know if you can convert it by just substituting the conjugated version of the word or if you have to do something more complicated with the word order.

Maybe you can, maybe you can't. It depends how and when the language evolved to its current state. It doesn't ring quite right to me, but I could easily be mistaken. I was hoping there might be someone with a more formal knowledge of it.