• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For the life of me I can’t understand you why you keep linking the same Wikipedia page to a word nobody is talking about. You’re continually making the argument that the word you is not a second person singular while still using the word you as a second person singular. Thou art utterly absurd. I’m going to block you now.

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      3 months ago

      same Wikipedia page to a word nobody is talking about.

      Because if you read it and weren’t an uneducated moron it would show give the history of the second person plural in English, you dipshit.

      What is so hard to understand about this sentence:

      It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you, although it remains in use in parts of Northern England and in Scots (/ðu:/ dhoo

      What is so hard to understand about this sentence?

      The practice of matching singular and plural forms with informal and formal connotations is called the T–V distinction and in English is largely due to the influence of French.

      Oh wait right, you’re an uneducated (and definitely monolinguistic) dipshit, I can see how you wouldn’t have the slightest idea of what that’s about.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction

      Just because you can use a large screwdriver to hammer in a nail does not make it a fucking hammer.

      So because you’re ignorant of the basics of linguistics, perhaps you should keep your ignorant mouth shut?

      Do you say “you is” or “you are”?

      You is joking, surely.

      If you actually spoke other languages or listened in any linguistics class you’ve ever had, you might be able to understand. But you aren’t.