I want to have a thread on human speech/language pathology and

>>8946005
Who is this and why is she on /sci/?

/sci/ has some discussions on linguistics once in a while.
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>>8946232

She wrote a thesis recently and writing style was cringe

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>>8946005
Why is language change so absurd sometimes?

For example, up until a few centuries ago, 'ye' was used for the singular and 'you' was used for the plural. Why did people just stop using such an important word?

>>8947058
I got the example wrong, 'you' was for singular and 'ye' was for plural.

>>8947058

>useful

How is that useful?

Besides English I know German and Polish. In both you have a separate "you" for singular and plural (Ty/Wy in Polish, Du/Ihr in German), and also special "official" forms (Pan/Pani/Państwo in Polish, Sie in German).

An then in the end you have to modify those forms by the gender of the following noun.

It's nonsense that doesn't give anything but another complication.

>>8947136
That's not what I mean. In my everyday life I often speak to more than one person at a time, and I imagine people in the past did too. Therefore, I'm assuming people would have to say 'ye' often. If people needed to use it often, then why did they stop using it?

>>8947136
Besides, nowadays, we say both of you, you guys, y'all; it's not any less complicated than saying ye.

>>8947058
That's a pretty superficial change. The really substantial changes happen via the accumulation of minior regular sound changes.

>>8947183
ye = you
thou was informal/singular iirc