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Post by snsurone on Jun 25, 2022 15:14:49 GMT
Do people of the Quaker persuasion still say "thee, thou, thy" and "thine", rather than "you" and "your"?
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Post by crimsonmoonfire on Jun 25, 2022 17:26:41 GMT
Do people of the Quaker persuasion still say "thee, thou, thy" and "thine", rather than "you" and "your"? No but they say " It's the right thing to do for your diabeetus. Quaker Oats - Just like Gramma used to make. I'm Wilfred Brimley and I won't grow any older and won't ever dah. Cuzza Quaker Oats.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 25, 2022 18:24:15 GMT
Judy Dench is a Quaker and that would have made her portrayal of M a lot more entertaining.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jun 25, 2022 19:12:20 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jun 25, 2022 19:52:39 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 25, 2022 20:19:38 GMT
Wasn't President Nixon a Quaker? Should he have said "Thou" or "Thee" ..."won't have Nixon to kick around anymore"?
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jun 25, 2022 23:10:57 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jun 25, 2022 23:14:41 GMT
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jun 30, 2022 18:44:34 GMT
After reading this, I think that if I was forced to claim a Christian religion, it would be this one.
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Post by snsurone on Jul 2, 2022 12:17:05 GMT
Christianity is neither a "notion" nor a "way". It is a religion that has extended itself WAY too far, and is believed by many to be a cult, like Scientology!
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 2, 2022 13:43:59 GMT
I’d long heard about Quakers using archaic second-person pronouns, and thought it was a cool tradition (modern English’s lack of a singular second-person pronoun can be a bit confusing), but I was surprised to learn (a few years ago) that they used thee as both the subject and object pronoun. This site gives a good explanation: Proper non-Quaker English would be “Thou goest to meeting,” but a Quaker would say, “Thee goes to meeting.” (They also used third-person conjugation for thee.) As Penn Guinn wrote, though, few Quakers nowadays would use either thou or thee. If no one minds a funny, tangential story: I grew up in an area that has hardly any Quakers now but was all Quaker country way back in colonial days. Once, a bunch of years ago, I visited a living history museum with my father, and the docent at one house told my dad that the house’s owner was a Quaker. Dad says, “So, are there any Quakers left now?” Docent says, some, not as many as there once were, not many around here. So a year later Dad and I go back to the museum for some event, and we go to the Quaker house again. Same docent, who goes into the same spiel about Quakers. Dad says, “So, are there any Quakers left now?” Docent says, some, not as many as there once were, not many around here. Neither apparently realizes the déjà vu—er, déjà dit. Unsurprisingly, that cracked me up.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 2, 2022 14:48:56 GMT
I’d long heard about Quakers using archaic second-person pronouns, and thought it was a cool tradition (modern English’s lack of a singular second-person pronoun can be a bit confusing), but I was surprised to learn (a few years ago) that they used thee as both the subject and object pronoun. This site gives a good explanation: Proper non-Quaker English would be “Thou goest to meeting,” but a Quaker would say, “Thee goes to meeting.” (They also used third-person conjugation for thee.) As Penn Guinn wrote, though, few Quakers nowadays would use either thou or thee. If no one minds a funny, tangential story: I grew up in an area that has hardly any Quakers now but was all Quaker country way back in colonial days. Once, a bunch of years ago, I visited a living history museum with my father, and the docent at one house told my dad that the house’s owner was a Quaker. Dad says, “So, are there any Quakers left now?” Docent says, some, not as many as there once were, not many around here. So a year later Dad and I go back to the museum for some event, and we go to the Quaker house again. Same docent, who goes into the same spiel about Quakers. Dad says, “So, are there any Quakers left now?” Docent says, some, not as many as there once were, not many around here. Neither apparently realizes the déjà vu—er, déjà dit. Unsurprisingly, that cracked me up. Personally, I LOVE a "tangential" story especially a fun one such as that
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