Re: Engish 2sg/pl

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> Certain isolated religious communities, such as the Amish and
> Mennenites, do still use a form of it.  Oddly, though, they seem
> to use "thee" as both subject and object, with the "you" form of
> the verb ("Thee are late.  Where have thee been?"), which sounds
> very wrong to me.
"thee" as subject and object isn't any stranger than "you" as subject and object
(they're both from the accusative, after all).

And let's submit that the <-st> "thou" endings died with the <-th> 3rd person
endings, and suddenly thee're talking strange sense...


    *Muke!
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