Party-game

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party-game

Title text: I actually only made this so nobody will ever invite me to a party again.

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English speakers lack a pronoun for the second person plural. They therefore cannot conceive of speaking to more than one person. This explains the extreme individualism of anglophone culture. It is no coincidence that the use of "thou" for singular and "you" for plural fell out of fashion precisely one generation after the publishing of adam smith's "wealth of nations."

Caption: Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk

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Coming soon. Bahfest 2021: Only tortured linguistics humor.

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