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		calvinmorrison on Dec 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (... Also see, the sun also rises because hemmingway transliterated a ton of Spanish, including thees, thous, some colloquialisms

panarky on Dec 24, 2023 [–]

You might be thinking of Hemingway's novelization of his experience supporting antifascists in the Spanish Civil War, "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

He uses "thee" and "thou" to simulate the informal Spanish "tú".

calvinmorrison on Dec 25, 2023 | [–]

Yes. That is the one! Good to read both

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