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Does Polish have a plural of "You"?


Ziemowit 14 | 4,278
11 Feb 2013 #31
"One", is a number. It doesn't work for ordinary English speakers.

Doesn't Prince Charles usually say "one and one's wife", meaning, bien sûr, "me and my wife"? But, true, he is not in the least what you may call an "ordinary English speaker".
jon357 74 | 21,778
11 Feb 2013 #32
"One", is a number. It doesn't work for ordinary English speakers.

One can if one wants.
OP citizen67 6 | 189
11 Feb 2013 #33
Doesn't Prince Charles usually say "one and one's wife", meaning, bien sûr, "me and my wife"?

95%+ of English speakers don't use it, it sounds ridiculous and effected.
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
11 Feb 2013 #34
One might even appear educated if they knew how to use it properly.
Ziemowit 14 | 4,278
11 Feb 2013 #35
One may even impress one's wife with one's improved education over a glass of beer in a pub which is in the vicinity of one's home.
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
11 Feb 2013 #36
Especially if one was proficient at a number of bar tricks.
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
12 Feb 2013 #38
If one was a chav, it might sound pratty.
jon357 74 | 21,778
12 Feb 2013 #39
95%+ of English speakers don't use it, it sounds ridiculous and effected.

Only if you can't carry it off. The authentic never seems affected.
sa11y 5 | 331
12 Feb 2013 #40
May I help you? = Czy mogę PAŃSTWU pomagać?

Lyzko - correct would be "Czy moge panstwu pomoc?", or even better "Czy moge panstwu w czyms pomoc?"
OP citizen67 6 | 189
12 Feb 2013 #41
If one was a chav, it might sound pratty.

No, anyone using it sounds "Pratty".

and I've notice your use of a racist expletive-
Ziemowit 14 | 4,278
12 Feb 2013 #42
We've been rehearsing the word "one" so far, now we are rehearsing the word "pratty". Nothing is left of the charming atmosphere of the forum of two years ago. Nothing even of the somewhat half-charming atmosphere we lived under Harry and his Nazi-Polish invasion of Czechoslovakia.
jon357 74 | 21,778
12 Feb 2013 #43
No, anyone using it sounds "Pratty".

So The Queen is 'pratty'?
OP citizen67 6 | 189
12 Feb 2013 #44
Definitely! and any Man who uses that phrase is ever worse, it is embarrassing, it's so twatty and impresses no-one.
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
12 Feb 2013 #45
and I've notice your use of a racist expletive-

One may deem it pejorative, but racist and expletive? Not in my books.
Ziemowit 14 | 4,278
12 Feb 2013 #46
So The Queen is 'pratty'?

Definitely!

How dare one call one's gracious Queen "pratty"? Shouldn't one be sent to the Tower of London for that?
OP citizen67 6 | 189
12 Feb 2013 #47
You sound like a prat. :rolleyes:
billpawl - | 32
13 Feb 2013 #48
In American English, one would not bat an eyelash at the above use of "one". The use of "prat" or "pratty" would sound a bit foreign, though.
Rysavy 10 | 307
13 Feb 2013 #49
In American English, one would not bat an eyelash at the above use of "one".

EXACTLY
And where did you get that "95%" stat Citizen? I am curious. I don't hear/see it everyday, but it is not that uncommon..even here in Podunk NC where I am staying this year.

I personally don't use it as often since I have lived in SW most of my life and therefore use "Y'all"

Did you live in a northern state?maybe they don't use it up Northeast? I never lived very long North of VA/KY. Cali uses "you guys" more often as does WA. But you can still hear or see it.

And after all...... "One Does Not Simply Walk into Mordor" ~ Boromir
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
13 Feb 2013 #50
And where did you get that "95%" stat Citizen?

Might be a case of one soaring with eagles or flocking around with turkeys....


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