tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 13 06:22:57 1995
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ye and thee
- From: [email protected] (Steve Weaver)
- Subject: ye and thee
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:24:36 -0500
So'wI' chu'Ha'lu'
As long as sombody started the thread on this subject, does anybody
remember the Old/Middle English runic letter "thorn" (looks like a p with a
hard-on)?? It represented the fricatives \th\ or \_th_\. It latter became
confused with the letter "y", which is how we come by the word "ye" instead
of "the" which has nothing to do with "thee". "Thou" may also steam from
{p}ou (I'm using {p} to represent the "thorn" character). Unfortunately I
cannot cite any source material as I have lost many a book a few years
back, and it been many a year since I've thought about it.
If someone has some referances for me I would appreciate a response (in
tera'ngnan Hol, of course as tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHbe')
So'wI' chu'lu'ta'
vay' yIHub Hoch 'ej Hoch tIHub vay'
-DumaS
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vIta'pu'be' !!! <- tlhIngan ghaH *Bart Simpson*'e'
Steve Weaver [email protected]