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« on: April 16, 2008, 02:00:29 am »
Actually, English lost its informal form of you, as you is formal. Thou was the English informal, but fell out of use. I hypothesize that we English-speakers are overly-ceremonial, proper, and stuck up, so informality was dropped from the laguage. Another interesting note is that in the Anarchist-controlled areas during the Spanish Civil War, stangers and friends alike were pretty invariably greeted as tu (that u is supposed to have an accent, but I have no idea how to accent shit, so whatever).