Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

At 2:34 PM +0100 9/11/02, bnathyuw wrote:
>  --- "Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@...>
>wrote:
>>
>>  As far as I know, English-speaking Mormons are
>>  encouraged to address God as
>>  "thou" in their prayers. I also remember an article
>>  in the church magazine,
>>  about twenty years ago, which had a short tutorial
>>  on those forms for those
>>  who were interested :). It included things such as
>>  the difference between
>>  "dost" and "doest", as well.
>>
>
>what would that be ? is 'dost' auxiliary and 'doest'
>non- ? or is one of them subjunctive or something ?
The first; 'dost' is the auxiliary, and 'doest' is the main verb. I
remember the article that Philip refers to; it was written by a
colleague of mine here at Brigham Young University (though it first
appeared when I was in the 5th grade).

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                             Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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