18 May 2011, 8:56 am
18 May 2011, 8:57 am
Aww, thank you for my special get-well soup. 
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18 May 2011, 8:58 am
18 May 2011, 8:58 am
Hee hee!
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18 May 2011, 8:59 am
How are you, and everyone else, today?
18 May 2011, 9:17 am
Were you asking me?
I thought we'd already established that I feel pretty pooey today!
18 May 2011, 9:18 am
He's real!
*shakes hands*
Hello, I do apologise for lurking on her posts.
I am suprised to see her in a clean chatroom. She has a mouth like a sailor.
Maybe she'll learn some manners.
18 May 2011, 9:19 am
I think she just likes to be in on EVERYTHING.
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18 May 2011, 9:20 am
I thought we'd already established that I feel pretty pooey today!
Alright, have you done anything interesting today?
The how are you question was aimed at anyone who wanted to answer
18 May 2011, 9:21 am
18 May 2011, 9:25 am
18 May 2011, 9:33 am
The how are you question was aimed at anyone who wanted to answer
Oh, I see.
This could get me started on something.
(skip this next part if you are going to be bored or confused by all_white's special interest)
There is a need for English to have two distinct types of pronouns for the second person (one plural, and one singular) to avoid all this frequent confusion due to the currently ambiguous nature of "you."
We used to have them. We used to have thee and thou as singular object and subject pronouns respectively, and you and ye as collective object and subject pronouns respectively. If somebody said "how art thou?" we knew they were only referring to one person. But if they said "how are ye?" we knew they were directing the question at a group of people. Sadly, that usage is now archaic, and nobody knows if "you" means everyone, or only one person.
Some groups of people invent their own dialect and make up a collective pronoun. In Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland they say "youse." In parts of America they say "y'all." People mock those types of people, and say those dialects are common. But actually, what they are instinctively doing makes a lot of sense.
*end of rant*
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18 May 2011, 9:37 am
Hmm...I think I use it in both situations.
But, in any case, how are ye (or youse, or y'all, or whatever else 
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18 May 2011, 10:01 am
Ye are all welcome to answer his question. This thread is open to all posters.
TPP, art thou of the same mind as me? Methinks I feel an urge to converse in the style of the Bard.
HIJACK!
This thread is temporarily becoming the "talk like Shakespeare" thread!
18 May 2011, 10:08 am
People get that famous line all mixed up. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
"Wherefore" means "why." It has nothing to do with "where."
Lots of people don't know that, and I hear them misquoting it all the time. I feel sorry for them, because if they get that line wrong, they misunderstand the meaning of the whole plot. But, as usual, nobody cares except me, and anyway, I expect all the science and maths geeks feel sorry for ME because I can't understand time dilation or complex algebra.
Juliet was not saying "oh Romeo, where are you?" She was saying "why did you have to be called Romeo? Why couldn't you have been called something else?"
Poor old Romeo.
18 May 2011, 10:14 am
"Wherefore" means "why." It has nothing to do with "where."
Lots of people don't know that, and I hear them misquoting it all the time. I feel sorry for them, because if they get that line wrong, they misunderstand the meaning of the whole plot. But, as usual, nobody cares except me, and anyway, I expect all the science and maths geeks feel sorry for ME because I can't understand time dilation or complex algebra.
Juliet was not saying "oh Romeo, where are you?" She was saying "why did you have to be called Romeo? Why couldn't you have been called something else?"
Poor old Romeo.
I wonder why wherefore meant why, then?
