(06-30-2015, 10:39 AM)Aya Wrote: That said, I find it pretty silly that "thee" is being used to try to make the language sound more polite. The plural "you" was the more polite and formal way of saying the singular "thou", and that's why it eventually ate "thou" and replaced it! That it now sounds more formal to some ears.. is a precious irony! ^_^
Yep! I'm sure you can appreciate that they at least managed to use "thee" and "thine" and the archaic verb conjugations correctly, which a lot of video games simply don't bother to do. Even today you see a lot of games with Early Modern English travesties with misplaced -eth/-est verb conjugations and using "thee" and "thou" interchangeably. At least FFXIV manages to get the grammar right.