Re:Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)
by fusiongyro on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:12AM
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These are all Indo-European languages; English once had forms of "you" like this: thou/thee.
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Re:Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)
by _emacsomancer_ on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:27PM
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As the singular, with you/ye as the plural. (Then later you was used as the formal form with thou as the familiar, like French's tu vs vous, and then later the informal thou/thee fell out of the use. [And new plural forms were innovated, e.g. youse, y'all etc.])
Re:Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)
by wool_gather on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:40PM
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Right; classically the counterpart to "you" in English would have been "usted" in Spanish. (Not really anymore, of course, since English doesn't use the formal/familiar distinction.)