Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 19 小时前11 years agoi.postimg.ccimagemessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down114
arrow-up1543arrow-down1image11 years agoi.postimg.ccBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 19 小时前message-square71fedilink
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 小时前I believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 小时前‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 小时前Interesting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 小时前This looks like an alright starting place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English
I believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
Interesting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
This looks like an alright starting place:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English