Unpacking shit is like Christmas for stuff you already own

[severin]

I just found my really super nice volume of Pushkin's love poems filled with his own illustrations the other day, which I was afraid I had lost for good.  So I spent the last half hour flipping through it instead of actually finishing unpacking and cleaning up and stuff like I should have been.  Just had to post a short one of my absolute favorites

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[nanimo]

On the one hand, rock the poem. But on the random stuff in Kyra's head; before the Quaker backlash "thee"/"thou" was the formal and "you" was the familiar. It amuses me that they've switched meanings.

[severin]

In my Old English class we learned "thou" (or þú, actually) as familiar/singular and the equivalent of "you" as plural/formal. The meanings might have switched a couple times back and forth though, I'm not sure. To me it makes more sense with "thou" being the familiar, since it's pretty obviously a cognate with other languages' 2nd person familiar, like tu/du and of course the Russian ты ("ty").