Would not a quark by any other name sound as sweet?quark
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Would not a quark by any other name sound as sweet?quark
Did you mean: Quark (food), Quark (the anthology series), Quark (kernel), Quark (the series), Quark (television), Quark (Star Trek)
The second person pronoun in Early Modern EnglishThee/thou probably survived most vibrantly within the Quaker Religious Society of Friends and any discussion of thee/thou would be incomplete without mention of Quaker Plain Speech. The Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, is dissident Protestant sect that was founded in England in 1652 when the thee/thou, you distinction was still used by the general population. According to R. Bauman, Quakers adopted a policy of using thee/thou in all interactions for four reasons: to maintain linguistic purity (i.e. a singular second person pronoun); to remain in accordance with the speech they (erroneously) believed Jesus and his followers to have used; to avoid undue pride and to assert the equality of all people by refusing to accord anyone the status of being addressed as you; and to avoid the use of you to address people and thou to address God (Birch, 40-41). The irony is that, with the loss of the common use of thee/thou, its use in Quaker communities quickly began to be a distinguishing mark, setting Quakers apart from the wider community; this was in direct contrast to their intended egalitarian goals when they chose to use thee/thou (Birch 44) but it continued to be widely used by Quakers until well into the nineteenth century (Birch 46).
Thee and ThouIn order to show that all people were equal before God, Quakers continued to use the informal pronouns thee and thou longer than anyone else. Actually, they stopped using thou and used thee as if it were a subject form, and they combined it with the third person singular of the verb, which is ungrammatical. So what would be “thou findest the truth” in historical usage became “thee finds the truth” in Quakerese.
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Yesterday, I saw you and your friend John getting into a car. Were you going somewhere with him? I saw you sitting behind the wheel, so I thought you were the driver. Was the car his or yours? I didn’t know you had your license.
86ed???shhhhhhhh...don't invoke him, he hasn't been 86ed from here...And, of course, we dislike "confused unintelligible language" as our old friend, buzz, taught us so well.
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For my part, the term «quark» refers to the particles which comprise hadrons like protons and neutrons - what else ? But as seen above it is variously employed - for a link which in still greater detail disambiguates the various usages of this lovely, but rather recent addition to English vocabulary, click on this link.......quark
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