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I found it amusing that "you" translated to "tu" (or tú) which is "you" in Spanish.
by jgust 8y ago
I found it amusing that "you" translated to "tu" (or tú) which is "you" in Spanish.
- krat0sprakhar 8y ago“Tu” is also "you" in Hindi.
- fusiongyro 8y agoThese are all Indo-European languages; English once had forms of "you" like this: thou/thee.
- kerng 8y agoCorrect. In German its "du" if I remember right.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoAs the singular, with you/ye as the plural. (Then later you was used as the formal form with thou as the familiar, like French's tu vs vous, and then later the informal thou/thee fell out of the use. [And new plural forms were innovated, e.g. youse, y'all etc.])
- wool_gather 8y agoRight; classically the counterpart to "you" in English would have been "usted" in Spanish. (Not really anymore, of course, since English doesn't use the formal/familiar distinction.)
- l9k 8y agoAnd in French
- FeteCommuniste 8y agoAnd Italian. And European Portuguese. And (just checked) Romanian...
- DonaldFisk 8y agoThese are all descendants of Latin, in which it was ... tu.