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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: 2d person pronoun
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 15:44:20 EDT
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> Not quite.  Here it is as I understand:
> 
>                |            | Informal | Formal |
>                | Nominative |   Thou   |   You  |
>                | Accusative |   Thee   |   Ye   |
> 
The modern formal objective is "you," of course.  "Ye" is the old
plural _nominative_ case, not the objective.  And anybody who's studied
German knows that Germans once used the plural Ihr ("ye") as a polite
form.  It was superseded by the "politer" form Sie ("they").

And this discussion has degenerated until it belongs in net.nlang.