:-) Then I shouldn't mention the disappearance of the subjective "ye" form - it's as if we're all using "us" to mean "I."
More generally...
I wonder whether the rise of informal second-person-plural forms tracks with the disappearance of the second-person-singular? I teach Latin in Texas these days, where the students like to use "you" for second-person-singular and "y'all" for second-person-plural.
And melannen - I wandered in from metafandom and I love how you work out what forms different characters would use! Harry Potter made me giggle, while Daniel Jackson made me ROFL!
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:-) Then I shouldn't mention the disappearance of the subjective "ye" form - it's as if we're all using "us" to mean "I."
More generally...
I wonder whether the rise of informal second-person-plural forms tracks with the disappearance of the second-person-singular? I teach Latin in Texas these days, where the students like to use "you" for second-person-singular and "y'all" for second-person-plural.
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