Ah! Cleared up. I never paid much attention to subject/object for second person plural. I shall have to check a couple Shakespeares to see if that plays out.
In meme news, I am really friggin' glad that today is over. It wasn't a bad day, but it was exhausting. I graded a lot as the kidlets took tests today, but then I gave two make-up tests and tutored (and that did not go especially well
and
I didn't get paid today because her husband wasn't home to write the check @@), and I'm thinking an hour of reading and bed bed bed is called for.
Is there a difference between "you" as a plural and "ye" as a plural?
From Wikipedia: 'Originally "ye" and "thou" were nominative pronouns, while "you" and "thee" were accusative forms,'
I didn't get paid today because her husband wasn't home to write the check @@
Oh that's just ridiculous. Come one, people. Don't do that.
Funny, I think I learned how to use thou, thee and thy from the bible, but I didn't pick up on you and ye at all.
t smooches Kristin
No fire tonight. I count that as a win. I think I'll go to bed now.
Oh that's just ridiculous. Come on, people. Don't do that.
Yeah, it annoyed me. I know my tutoring fee is peanuts to them, but it's my weekly spending money, dammit.
ETA: Night, love.
Ya I know, no medals given for finally doing housework.
I'd give someone a medal for doing mine.
In Middle to early modern English, ye was the second person plural subjective, as in "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," while you was the objective case, which is only slightly less confusing. Old English was much more declined, so the case would be a better clue than it is today. It also made it a bitch to learn.
eta: Curse your geeky but inevitable crossposts.
I'm sorry ma'am but I'm going to have to repossess the contents of your daughter's brain.
I'm catching up with the day. Laura, goodness. Good thoughts your way.
And the language talk reminds me to ask - is fixing (as in dinner or a drink) a regional thing? My mother, who is from the South, uses "fix" and "make" interchangeably when it comes to food and drink (so do I) - as in, "I'm going to fix dinner," or "Would you like me to fix you a drink?", but she was saying the other day that her Canadian friends used to tease her with... "You're going to fix it? Is it broken?" (Like, thirty years ago, they did this) Now I'm wondering whether it's an overall USian thing, or a regional thing. (She doesn't say "fixin' to," - it's not that usage.)
