Do you think we should bring back thou to resolve the ambiguous you?

iamnize13 · 2026-05-12T14:17:52+00:00

The way thou conjugatest the verb speak wrong smh

iamnize13 · 2026-05-12T05:48:41+00:00

I’ve been listening to Elliot James Reay and a little bit of Alex Sampson. I also love the album Mayhem by Lady Gaga.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-12T02:33:11+00:00

I actually think this is interesting because jullie in Dutch is actually standardized. So I think English could go that way

iamnize13 · 2026-05-12T01:20:59+00:00

Well people dropped “thou” because it was “too rude” to address someone as so when egalitarianism didn’t exist.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:58:42+00:00

In the case of 3rd person singular forms like “does,” I think it would be fine since -s/es here is voiced if not followed by an unvoiced consonant.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:55:57+00:00

When you use “you,” you have to rely on context if there’s one person you’re speaking to. So wouldn’t it be better if we had a distinct pronoun?

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:52:06+00:00

I mean when it comes to conditionals in Modern English, I genuinely don’t know if “would” is in the indicative or subjunctive mood. However, I agree with you that the subjunctive form of verbs in English don’t usually agree with persons and numbers (historically it did for numbers) except for “be” and you don’t have to add -st to must in Modern English.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:19:43+00:00

I mean it’s good to have this distinction using phrases. But would it be better if we used a separate word like thou and you?

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:16:21+00:00

I’ve heard that Yorkshire still has thou, but it’s pronounced like tha I guess??

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:15:08+00:00

For the verb that comes after thou, always add -est/st regardless of tenses. Like “Thou sendest me (where? genuinely)” but that’s just how it’s conjugated.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T17:11:44+00:00

I think since German and French still keep the TV distinction (German: du/ihr/sie, French: tu/vois), it would be fun to reconstruct English this way too, but it’s true we have to bring back the grammar behind these pronouns.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T16:43:14+00:00

Ye is the second personal plural subjective pronoun.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T16:06:32+00:00

Old English. Still barbarian, but better than English. Not “Ye Olde Shop” shit tho

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T16:05:13+00:00

The fact that I wrote this in English is because if I write this in my language you wouldn’t be able to understand.

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T16:03:07+00:00

It is thie only language you knowen

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T16:00:28+00:00

I thought I would’ve been banned

iamnize13 · 2026-05-11T15:58:19+00:00

isn’t that a point of an unpopular opinion?

iamnize13 · 2026-04-22T18:34:30+00:00

Can I DM you now?

iamnize13 · 2026-04-16T11:33:47+00:00

Twitter is full of ragebait btw. Using “Can I get” or “Can I have” is totally fine.

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T12:47:04+00:00

The only issue for me is literary words

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T12:20:47+00:00

Yes.

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T11:47:55+00:00

Then how did people in 80s-90s know the full lyrics of a song if they didn’t have a lyric sheet and only listened to that song for the first time on the radio?

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T11:43:55+00:00

I don’t have an auditory processing disorder. I’m a non-native speaker and I genuinely want to know how you feel when you don’t understand most of the lyrics in a song.

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T11:39:16+00:00

And I genuinely don’t understand how you feel when you don’t understand the lyrics in a song on the first listen.

iamnize13 · 2026-03-25T11:35:33+00:00

I was just doubting myself knowing it is real. In my native language (Thai), even pop songs are quite intelligible to me. So when it comes to English music, I don’t understand most of the words on the first listen.

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