Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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they don't mind (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I thought you was the more respectful form of thou in singular, and “ye” was the plural form of that. In Ireland you still hear ye used for plural you sometimes.

Originally the difference between ġē→ye→ye and ēow→yow→you wasn't one of number, but of case: you'd use "ye" for the subject, "you" for the subject, regardless of being a plural or a respectful singular. Much like "I" vs. "me". Eventually however "you" displaced "ye" even for the subject role, in most varieties; what you see in Hiberno English is also an innovation, but a different one.