My ancient Quaker father-in-law (now deceased) never gave them up.
His first utterance to me was “What has thou done with Liss?” - a question I
was none to keen on answering (‘Liss'= his daughter)
His language took a little getting used to, but after a while I barely noticed,
except to enjoy it.
Cheers,
David Glasgow
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 8:55 pm, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> Thou hast no need at all to be pompous, just a wee bit old-fashioned.
>
> Thou art more than welcome me to the extremely select club of language
> nutters (current membership: 1 and a few stray Mennonites)
> who want to bring Thou, thee, they and thine back into mainstream English
> usages.
>
> Membership is free, and thou art not required to wear a daft uniform, change
> thy dietary habits, take any odd vows, or
> reassess thy personal hygiene regime . . .
>
> However, if thou usest the middle-finger in any way whatsoever thou wilt be
> expelled forthwith, fifthwith and sixthwith!
>
> None of our membership have become obsessive enough to remove their
> middle-finger, Yet!
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 7/4/17 10:43 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
>> On 07/04/2017 11:34 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>>> It was a generic 'you' and not you 'you' :)
>>>
>>> I think part of my brain decided on 'one' there but my fingers objected
>>> ('when' should have been 'one').
>>>
>>> Indeed in this instance 'one' in both places probably would have been
>>> better, however I always feel like that sounds slightly pompous...
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> Yes, "one" would maybe have been more syntactically correct but made you
>> feel pompous. "You" in both places emphasizes the lexical ambiguity. So even
>> though the sentence would be diagrammed the same way (the bytecode
>> implementation would be identical) they feel completely different.
>>
>> So... aren't you glad we have synonyms? <g>
>>
>> And placing the sentence in passive voice would eliminate the above problems
>> by allowing a different creative process to take place. Thus my argument for
>> synonyms: not that it makes much (if any) difference at the engine level,
>> but it allows for some right-brain interaction in what would otherwise be a
>> completely left-brain activity.
>>
>
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