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neaden
on Dec 24, 2023
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Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (...
The Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette (writing as Katherine Addison) is a secondary world fantasy that uses you/thou as a way of incorporating formality. It's interesting way of helping understand the whole manner/formality system of the setting.
Semiapies
on Dec 24, 2023
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Also the royal "we".
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