Timeline for 2nd person convergence in other languages than English
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| Sep 18, 2014 at 23:36 | comment | added | Tai Ferret | I noticed my answer wasn't very clear and wasn't quite complete, so I edited it. So basically what I wanted to say with this answer was that this convergence used to be the case in Middle Dutch. I just wanted to make it clear that it is no longer the case in modern Dutch because of the new forms. | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 23:30 | history | edited | Tai Ferret | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Huge clarification
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | fdb | Also: are you really suggesting that the spoken pronoun "u" derives from the abbreviation "u."? Are you not confusing spoken language with orthography? | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | fdb | I think we are talking about two different things. In English "you" is used to address one person, or more than one. In this sense it is correct to say that the 2nd person sing. "converges" with the 2nd person plural. In Dutch, on the other hand, there are still discrete forms for the singular and the plural. "Jullie" is plural only, I think. | |
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 12:36 | history | answered | Tai Ferret | CC BY-SA 3.0 |