{"id":4214,"date":"2026-07-12T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:11:07","slug":"change-is-constant-for-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4214","title":{"rendered":"Change is constant for languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texarkanagazette.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/08\/change-is-constant-for-languages\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Change is constant for languages | Texarkana Gazette\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/imports\/adg\/img\/2026\/07\/09\/213170105_heloise3970679268_t300_hdc8cbc3e8feaf319c4eb5f8c7ac371948aea1d19_t1200.jpeg?57a0c2296240c280e9492005c3cad63e7cbe80f4\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.texarkanagazette.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Change is constant for languages | Texarkana Gazette<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Dear Heloise: King Alfred the Great would never have said &#8220;you&#8221; to one person, since this was the plural form, and &#8220;thou&#8221; was the singular form. (This can be compared to the German &#8220;du&#8221; and the Spanish &#8220;tu.&#8221;) After the French-speaking Normans in 1066 forced a two-tier society on England, they demanded that they should be addressed with the plural pronoun, while they addressed the conquered natives with the singular (which explains why the plural &#8220;are&#8221; is still used with &#8220;you&#8221;). Examples of changes could be multiplied.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}