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“Je vais te me les disperser, moi !” —I was curious about this construction and found that there was already a question about it on the French Language Stack Exchange. Apparently, it’s the ethical dative, which Wiktionary says was used in Latin but is rare in English, and gives these examples:
I'm gonna smoke me a cigarette!
I'll rhyme you so eight years together, —Shakespeare, As You Like It, 3.2
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— Aug 26, 2026 06:58PM
I'm gonna smoke me a cigarette!
I'll rhyme you so eight years together, —Shakespeare, As You Like It, 3.2
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Wind me into him, I pray you. —Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.2