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		dragonwriter on Dec 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (... OTOH, the reason those feelings were free to be expressed...

8372049 on Dec 25, 2023 [–]

Yeah, we would all be speaking German now if they had won. But to put it another way, German remained the second language after they lost WW1.

Hunpeter on Dec 26, 2023 | [–]

>we would all be speaking German >now if they had won I hope you're saying this as a joke/deliberate hyperbole.

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