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    14 days ago

    Make it authentic. Realize that “ye” is a product of industrialization, caused by the abandonment of þ. Use “Thee”

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      Wouldn’t that be if “ye” was being used instead of “the”, as in “ye olde whatever”? I assumed “ye” here was just a way of writing the dwarvish (i.e. scottish) pronunciation of “you”.