Timeline for Why does second person only have 'you' whereas first person has "I" and "me"?
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| Jul 21, 2022 at 11:21 | answer | added | Aled Cymro | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 20:41 | comment | added | user457746 | @Robbie: You are wrong. My native language is English and I am also a professional writer. I am extremely comfortable with English but not really well-versed in formal grammatical terms. I also was careful to give an explicit example because I know there are other forms of you such as "thou", so I wanted to give a simple example in which substituting "I" would work in one and not the other. As for the other language, I was thinking of Portuguese, but I did not want to say it because I am not 100% sure there isn't some subtlety in Portuguese that I am missing. | |
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 5:49 | history | edited | Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2022 at 23:43 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Jul 18, 2022 at 23:13 | comment | added | Angelos | Nobody seems to have picked up on this, but 'we/us' is first-person plural, not third person. Third-person has 'he/him', 'she/her', and 'they/them'. | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 22:14 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 18, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1549136931543449601 | ||
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| Jul 18, 2022 at 12:37 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2022 at 12:27 | answer | added | BoldBen | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 9:28 | answer | added | Stuart F | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 3:55 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Related reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. | |
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| S Jul 18, 2022 at 3:36 | history | asked | user457746 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |