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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: more on 2d pers pron...
Message-ID: <5290002@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 16:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 16:58:00 1985
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> English has never had a "formal" pronoun as such; certain dialects have
> used formal constructions, but no analog to Sie (German) or vous (French)
> was ever mentioned to ME in classes on the development of the language
> or Old English (OE).

Not quite.  Here it is as I understand:

               ----------------------------------
               |            | Informal | Formal |
               |--------------------------------|
               | Nominative |   Thou   |   You  |
               |--------------------------------|
               | Accusative |   Thee   |   Ye   |
               ----------------------------------

I don't know any friends who adress me as "thou," but this is
(technically) how I think it should be.
                                         A. G. Percus
                                  (ARPA) percus@acf4
                                   (NYU) percus.acf4
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