sarker
competency crisis actor
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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This "rule" has nothing to do with grammar. The OED has numerous examples of the first person pronoun being first going back hundreds of years. The rule was never about grammar, but always about politeness. From the 1868 Practical Grammar of the English Language:
Courtesy requires the first place to be given to the second person, and last place to the first.
Certain individuals who never saw a rule they didn't like noticed the convention but not the reason and assumed it had a grammatical basis. It didn't.
In any case, I hope that thou always useth "ye" for the plural subject and "thou" for the singular subject, and "you" for the plural object and "thee" for the singular object. After all, those are actual grammar rules of thy native language, right?
Cool. Would be interesting to try this myself, I suspect I'm the opposite in some ways (I care way more about rhythm and groove than melody, so I think the 90s were actually a great time for music). Did you just dump your playlist into chatgpt?
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