tuulikki: piningforthefords: sbooksbowm:motherfuckingshakespeare:A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WOND
tuulikki: piningforthefords: sbooksbowm:motherfuckingshakespeare:A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. the bard would fuck with being referred to as “shakes” Also, remember that these forms are informal. You/your existed at the time and are formal terms that would be used when speaking to a superior/being respectful. Thou/thee/thy/thine forms are casual—you wouldn’t use them to refer to nobility, for instance, unless they were very chill and you were familiar with them. ⬆️ CRITICAL ADDITION ⬆️ That’s in fact why we use ‘you’ for both singular and plural nowadays. The set of people who had to be addressed as 'you’ for the sake of politeness kept getting bigger and bigger until no one bothered with 'thou/thee’ any longer. -- source link
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