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

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> Actually, according to my Yiddish textbook, Yiddish-speakers use the
> familiar |du| second-person pronoun to talk to God, instead of the formal
> |ir|.
It's standard to use the 2sg (familiar) in German too, so this feature is
surely inherited from the common ancestor.

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