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Subject:Re: Redneck step of the day... From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:32:43 -0600
Oh noes!!!
Get thee behind me Satan!
Scott
On 12/17/09 9:22 PM, Combs, Richard wrote:
> Leslie Turriff wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 18:04:10 Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE
> Healthcare,
>> consultant) wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> MY question is, why did English not develop a word so obviously
> needed
>>> that every region has its version or the word, and they are all
>>> considered improper?
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Madelyn Boudreaux
>>
>> If I remember correctly, Ye Olde English (e.g. Elisabethan and
>> before) had
>> separate words for singular and plural pronouns, much like French and
>> German
>> still do, but these were dropped as the language became more
> modernized and
>> streamlined. Now these ambiguities are being corrected once more, and
> may
>> eventually even become "standard" usage.
>
> The singular of you used to be thou. As in, "My lord, why hast thou
> forsaken me?" That's the nominative case. The objective case was thee,
> as in "Get thee behind me, Satan!"
>
> We could try to bring them back into fashion. :-)
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
> ------
> rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
> 303-777-0436
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