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Sir Thomas Wyatt\u2019s \u201cThey Flee From Me\u201d and the history of the word <\/em>deserve.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Angelica_Kauffmann_-_Ariadne_Abandoned_by_Theseus\"<\/a>

Angelica Kauffmann, Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus<\/i>, 1774.<\/p><\/div>\n

The best I-just-got-dumped pop song ever, beating out such classics as \u201cWild World<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Me<\/a>,\u201d \u201cNothing Compares 2 U<\/a>,\u201d \u201cYou Oughta Know<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cIrreplaceable<\/a>,\u201d is six hundred years old: Sir Tom\u2019s \u201cRunaway,\u201d known to poets and scholars as \u201cThey Flee From Me\u201d by Thomas Wyatt. You can read the original lyrics here (old spelling<\/a>, modern spelling<\/a>), but the structure and arc couldn\u2019t be simpler: three verses, no chorus.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Wait, what? They<\/em> used to come running after me<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. Especially this one girl. Man, she was so hot.<\/li>\n
  3. It\u2019s true. Now she won\u2019t even talk to me. I must have been too nice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    At least she\u2019ll get her comeuppance: \u201cBut since that I so kindly am served \/ I would fain know what she hath deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

    To paraphrase: since she was so nice to me (sarcastic!)\u2014and\/or the now-obsolete meaning: since she treated me so in keeping with her kind, just the way you\u2019d expect her to act (that bitch!)\u2014I\u2019d like to know what she has coming. The strange word to modern ears is the last one. Doesn\u2019t the singer already know what she deserves<\/em>, just not what she\u2019s going to get<\/em>? <\/p>\n

    What it means to deserve has changed in six hundred years. The prefix de-<\/em>, from Latin, not only means \u201cdown\u201d or \u201cdown from\u201d (descend<\/em>, decline<\/em>, derail<\/em>) but \u201cdown to the bottom,\u201d thoroughly, completely. To declaim<\/em> is to shout away, to declare<\/em> is to make perfectly clear, to denude<\/em> is to strip totally bare, to despoil <\/em>is to ruin utterly. To deserve <\/em>is to serve zealously and meritoriously, thus to merit by service. In the original meaning, now obsolete, deserve<\/em> means to acquire or earn a rightful claim by virtue of actions or qualities; now it means to have already acquired it. Wyatt was curious what his ex-girlfriend had earned by her behavior.<\/p>\n

    To earn <\/em>(from the German ernten<\/em>, \u201cto harvest\u201d) is to labor, specifically farm labor: reaping, threshing, sowing. To earn means to work and as a result to obtain or deserve a reward of money, praise, or advantage. The doubling and difference of the two words is typical of English vocabulary, in a pattern dating back to the Norman Conquest: Germanic words are agricultural, peasant, blunt, while French or Latinate words are courtly and fancy. Mother and father versus maternity and paternity, work\u00a0versus employment, king\u00a0versus royal majesty, \u201cCan I help\u201d versus \u201cMay I be of assistance.\u201d One kind of person tends cows, pigs, sheep, and deer, the other eats beef, pork, mutton, and venison.<\/p>\n

    Manual labor and courtly service used to be parallel in English\u2014to deserve was to earn by good service; to earn was to work hard and deserve a reward. But the courtly sense shifted. Now to deserve something means you\u2019ve already earned it: it\u2019s owed to you even if you don\u2019t do any more work than you already have (or haven\u2019t!). Upper-class prosperity is self-perpetuating: if you have capital already, it\u2019ll pay out interest on its own. There are no unjust deserts in English, because deserts are what you deserved\/earned in the old sense, what you deserve in the new sense. (Dessert<\/em>, incidentally, has two s<\/em>\u2019s because it\u2019s from dis-serve<\/em>, \u201cto clear the table.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    Other languages don\u2019t share this idea of what\u2019s fair. In German, earn<\/em> and deserve <\/em>are the same word: verdienen <\/em>(from dienen<\/em>, \u201cto serve\u201d; a Diener <\/em>is a servant, Dienst <\/em>is service). This is often a translation puzzle: How should verdienen <\/em>be translated in any given case? You can get what you deserve in German, too\u2014Er bekommt was er verdient<\/em>\u2014but then you\u2019re also always getting what you earned through your hard work. Faith that the system functions properly is built into the language. It makes my head spin to imagine what our culture would be like if we always earned what we deserve and deserved what we earn.<\/p>\n

    In French, meanwhile, deserve <\/em>is m\u00e9riter<\/em>, \u201cto merit,\u201d while earn <\/em>is gagner<\/em>: to gain, to win, whether a game of skill or a crapshoot. Deserts are just, but gains are ill-gotten\u2014earning, in the French language, is separate from merit. This is a cynical view, fit for Balzacian strivers and misers or philosophers who think that everything is about power: what you have coming to you is what you\u2019ve gotten your hands on, by hook or by crook. In German, all earnings are deserved; in French none are.<\/p>\n

    In English, you get what you deserve, if you\u2019re rich. At least we all reap what we sow.<\/p>\n

    Damion Searls<\/a>, the Daily\u2019s language columnist, is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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