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  • #16
    Plus, while you say you know they're second person, you used them all in first person fashion.
    Untrue. I did not *use* them at all. I *compared* them with first person pronouns. I did not even imply that they *were* first person.

    If my comparison was wrong, by all means, show where it was wrong; I'd prefer to know better in the future. Keeping in mind that I was NOT saying they were of the same person as the compared terms.
    "My in-laws are country people and at night you can hear their distinctive howl."

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    • #17
      Forgot this on my other post.
      "Ye of little faith" is the only time I hear/read the word Ye to mean you, or the only one that sticks in my mind, the rest of the time it's Ye Olde ...

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      • #18
        If I remember correctly, "Ye," when in reference to "The," was a modern equivalent to "Þe" (since the first letter, representing "th," was dropped from the English alphabet; as such, it was always pronounced as "the").

        Of course I'm sure I'm wrong about it.

        (This forum doesn't support superscript, does it?)
        "I take it your health insurance doesn't cover acts of pussy."

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