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Nowa Polonie wrote:Quinctillius Warus

Weni widi wici

Losconia wrote:Weni widi wici

If we're gonna spell it phoenetically

Weni widi wiki

vivere 'to live' <-- latin
...
ṽiṽire
ṽiṽi

Wiwi hehehehe
wiwi means 'i live' in lasco-language

Orostan wrote:I hear starmer is running the Labour Party into the ground

I mean the Labor Party was already declining for the past twenty years.

The decline got worse under Corbyn, and became even worse post-Corbyn.

Nowa Polonie wrote:If we're gonna spell it phoenetically

Weni widi wiki

ci in classical Latin was just ki.

Arela wrote:I mean the Labor Party was already declining for the past twenty years.

The decline got worse under Corbyn, and became even worse post-Corbyn.

ah yes the best the Labour Party has done in recent years was because corbyn made it decline

Orostan wrote:ah yes the best the Labour Party has done in recent years was because corbyn made it decline

Corbyn had initial success, raising Labor seats from 232 to 262. But he left office with the lowest Labor performance ever, with just 202 seats.

Meanwhile the Conservatives have gained 48 seats, now with 365 seats in total.

Which tbf doesn't mean much since Labor has losing seats in every other election for the past two decades.

Orostan wrote:ah yes the best the Labour Party has done in recent years was because corbyn made it decline

Oreo-chan, wiwi visere suffriç.
wiwiç sugare weewee's.

k i stop harassing y'all with my vulgar tongue.

Arela
How is the 'you' plural used in Spanish?
I know there is a weird distinction where vos (or whatever the equivalent is in Spanish, I forgot) is used as a formal way of saying the 2nd person, but is it also used as an actual plural, e.g. 'you all', or has it lost that distinction and is only used as a formality?

Losconia wrote:Arela
How is the 'you' plural used in Spanish?
I know there is a weird distinction where vos (or whatever the equivalent is in Spanish, I forgot) is used as a formal way of saying the 2nd person, but is it also used as an actual plural, e.g. 'you all', or has it lost that distinction and is only used as a formality?

Tu is informal address singular, Usted is formal.

As an English speaker, the concept of a 'you' plural is just...outside of my comprehension, so figuring out how to use it is a bit of a struggle.

Arela wrote:Corbyn had initial success, raising Labor seats from 232 to 262. But he left office with the lowest Labor performance ever, with just 202 seats.

Meanwhile the Conservatives have gained 48 seats, now with 365 seats in total.

Which tbf doesn't mean much since Labor has losing seats in every other election for the past two decades.

What you mean is that corbyn did great until the media ran a massive propaganda campaign against him and his own party sabotaged him. All things considered he did the best he could have.

Note that when used in the second person that tu is often dropped entirely.

For instance;

''Tu eres intelligente'' - You are intelligent, is often just rendered ''Eres intelligente''.

Losconia wrote:As an English speaker, the concept of a 'you' plural is just...outside of my comprehension, so figuring out how to use it is a bit of a struggle.

I mean.. really?

It's quite common for rhetoricians to use ''You'' when addressing a crowd, for instace.

Nowa Polonie wrote:I mean.. really?

It's quite common for rhetoricians to use ''You'' when addressing a crowd, for instace.

When you put it that way, it makes more sense. But we don't have as specific conjugation for a you plural, so my knee jerk reaction is to use the 2nd singular in general, and the struggle is primarily in paying attention to when the plural is appropriate or not.

Nowa Polonie wrote:Tu is informal address singular, Usted is formal.

Pretty much that. Vos is also informal, and is used by much of South America (interchangeably with tu).

Peru, especially coastal Peru, uses "tu" exclusively. Though people still understand vos.

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Plural you is "ustedes," which means "you all." South America uses ustedes both formally and informally. Spain uses "vosotros" informally apparently, and usted formally.

I'm not sure if it counts as using ''You'' plural, since there's a qualifying phrase, but there's also sentences like; ''All of you.'' for example.

English is a dirty language because it's a global composite language with influences from several language families, so I'd argue that there isn't even a proper way to use it, unless it's in the written word.

Losconia wrote:When you put it that way, it makes more sense. But we don't have as specific conjugation for a you plural, so my knee jerk reaction is to use the 2nd singular in general, and the struggle is primarily in paying attention to when the plural is appropriate or not.

Well if you want to be really, really semantic, ''You'' is the plural, the singular is ''Thou''.

But obviously, if you go around saying ''Thou'' people will look at you like you've just run into a door head-first.

Nowa Polonie wrote:Note that when used in the second person that tu is often dropped entirely.

For instance;

''Tu eres intelligente'' - You are intelligent, is often just rendered ''Eres intelligente''.

Latin is pro-drop as well, the subject can be inferred from the conjugation.

That's that case for most romance languages, I believe.

I understand the pro-drop rule now, but back when I was taking Italian, it confused the crap out of me...probably because I didn't memorize the conjugations or understand them really.
"WHY IS THERE 5 WAYS TO WRITE ONE VERB" poor poor me. AND I WANTED TO TAKE FRIGGIN LATIN.

Let's all start speaking in Pidgin English.

Ista is wanpela stinky language karamapim tok no one should speak it.

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Nowa Polonie wrote:Note that when used in the second person that tu is often dropped entirely.

For instance;

''Tu eres intelligente'' - You are intelligent, is often just rendered ''Eres intelligente''.

Not in Peru (again, especially in the coast). Peru is known for having the best Spanish in South America.

Arguably even better than Spain given all the slangs and swears they use (even compared to other Hispanic countries).

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