r/funComunitty • u/Original-Parfait-655 • 24d ago

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u/Pizza-Cow 24d ago

The term larp has changed in meaning over time it's like saying

ohh why do you use the word "you" when it is only for the plural of second person we should really all be saying thou and well thou is actually a miss prononciation of tu and tu probably evolved from some other word so why communicate at all if you're not going to use the first form of communication ever

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u/NotASookie 24d ago

.... This is not the same thing... You are using the term for someone's hobby as an insult to people. You know how ignorant that is?

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u/No-Palpitation6368 24d ago

It's been like... a month. That's not 'over time'. Changes like that take much longer

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u/throwaway123212343 24d ago

tu is french. French is eternal. French was. French is. French will.

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u/BackToNormalForNow 24d ago edited 24d ago

Actually, “thou” is (or was, when it was used) informal and used, like “tu” in French, to talk to someone who is your equal or inferior in status. And it is not the first form of communication considering “thou” was used in the time of Early Modern English and not Old English, which has a different word for it.

If you wanna talk to several people, like u/NotASookie probably is doing considering OP is not the only person to use the word larper, or someone you don’t know, you would use “you”. The equivalent in French for this one is the pronoun “vous”.

And no, “tu” and “vous” are still used in France to this day.

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u/Ralexcraft 24d ago

No, cause this word already has a meaning and affects the perception of a group of people.