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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (17 children)

"Thou is tall" sounds weird though.

you already use a grammatically plural pronoun to refer to individuals all the time: the word "you". It's always "you are tall",

This made my brain short circuit lol. Can't believe I never noticed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah but that's because you see it in archaic contexts. How do you feel about 'thou art tall'?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But art sounds like are. Is art singular?

[–] ricecake 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From the dictionary: (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be

So, yes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ricecake 1 points 2 months ago

To convey uncertainty, because the dictionary classification of the word was a bit of a mouthful, and I was only 90% certain that I was interpreting it correctly.

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