It's Japanese. "See you later", I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
Simetrical, is not "thee" the plural form?
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It's Japanese. "See you later", I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
Simetrical, is not "thee" the plural form?
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jspQuote:
Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine
I grabbed this from the chat thread.
Just update it for me. Please? We'll go from there.
It would spill out to other forums within the Guild so I don't think its a good idea. Think of the grudges and paypacks and flames that would erupt everywhere within the Org. I think the Backroom is harsh enough and if you want to take it "outside", then go back and forth through email. And if a total bastard such as myself thinks its a bad idea, you know its a bad idea!!! ~;)
No. Thou/thee/thy/thine was singular, you/ye/your/yours was plural. You/ye/your/yours was used when speaking to one's superiors, however, even in the singular, and was generally "polite" and reserved. Eventually people used it more and more, and the thou family disappeared.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeonGod
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Is there a name for the "thou/thee/thy/thine" era? It's considered "New English" in classifications but shouldn't total change in an important pronoun kit be considered somewhat more important? (Excuse the sleepless-night-plus-lazy-morning phrasing.)
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You refer to Elizabethan, I assume? I've read (specifically in Blin' Hary's Wallace) that "thee" was the proper term for addressing a superior, as opposed to "thou" (well, "thow") as Wallace used to address an English soldier, which prompted the famous retort "Quham 'Thowis' Thow, Scot?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
This was written in the 1400's about events that took place in the late 1200's and early 1300's.
It's Early Modern English, or maybe Elizabethan English. And while the pronoun shift isn't insignificant, it hardly ranks with the Norman invasion that added a vast number of Latin roots to English (which spelled the end of Old English), or the Great Vowel Shift that dramatically changed the pronunciation of most of the words in the language (which was the end of Middle English). A few measly pronouns are small fry by comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
Thou was indeed used for inferiors, but it was ye that was used for superiors (and also when addressing multiple people). Thee and you were used in the objective, the way words like me and him are today (as opposed to I and he). This usage was acquired gradually throughout Middle English, with you being used for broader and broader groups, until finally thou was eclipsed entirely―in the year 1000, nobody used ye to refer to any individual person, but by 1300 thou was already consigned mostly to inferiors, and perhaps to intimates on occasion. By 1650 it was just about entirely gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeonGod
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I just tried to enter the chatroom from another computer, from a cyber cafe. And I got the same error. I guess there is something related with Turkish language.. May the Mods have a look at the Java script they use to build the chatroom ? Is it the OS maybe ? (Windows XP Turkish version)