Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: [formal?] "your" pl. and sing.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:11 +0800
Andrew,
Since you obviously have some particular passage or passages in mind, could
you please
share them with us? It will improve the quality of the responses, wouldn't
it?
Paul
Andrew C Smith wrote:
> Loren -
>
> Are you saying that Hebrew has a formal and informal second person, like
> French or German?
>
> Yet Moses switches back and forth between "the Lord your God" and "the
> Lord y'all's God" in the middle of one speech to the same crowd of
> people.
>
> A.C. Smith
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