Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 18 hours ago11 years agoi.postimg.ccimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1533arrow-down113
arrow-up1520arrow-down1image11 years agoi.postimg.ccBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoI 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-up6·3 hours ago‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoInteresting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·41 minutes agoThis 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