Usernameblankface@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agowhat advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?message-squaremessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1168
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minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoFun fact about English, “you” was actually the more formal one. But since we don’t use “thou” anymore, and most people know it from old-timey speak and church, we think of it as more formal today.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoWell, people in the past talked MUCH more formally than we do. If I talked to my grandfather in 1400 the way I talk to my husband today, he’d probably disown me.
Fun fact about English, “you” was actually the more formal one. But since we don’t use “thou” anymore, and most people know it from old-timey speak and church, we think of it as more formal today.
Well, people in the past talked MUCH more formally than we do.
If I talked to my grandfather in 1400 the way I talk to my husband today, he’d probably disown me.