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		8372049 on Dec 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (... Yeah, we would all be speaking German now if they had won. But to put it another way, German remained the second language after they lost WW1.

Hunpeter on Dec 26, 2023 [–]

>we would all be speaking German >now if they had won I hope you're saying this as a joke/deliberate hyperbole.

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