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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!bu.edu!wang!wizvax!buscard!dand
  2. From: dand@buscard.fidonet.org (Dan Davidson)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: el nino
  5. Message-ID: <gate.sZoNoB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 04:29:27 GMT
  7. Lines: 28
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  11.   => In a message to All on 07-26-92  11:36 Wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk said:
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  13.  Wi> dand@buscard.fidonet.org (Dan Davidson) writes: > 
  14.  >
  15.  > Actually, "thou" was singular and "you" was plural.
  16.  > 
  17.  Wi> Er, Dan, "thou" and "you" are *2nd* person pronouns. Dennis was
  18.  Wi> referring to the fact that English has a seperate verb form for the
  19.  Wi> pronouns "he", "she", "it".
  20.  
  21. I thought he was contrasting the full complement of third person
  22. singular verbs with the apparent 'singular' monotony in 2nd person.
  23. I'm saying that it's stranger than (more singular than?) that, because
  24. the monotony is plural.
  25.                                                    -- Dan --
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  30.                       |       Dan Davidson           |
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  35. ... THINK! or thwim.
  36. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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