The "you" word

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biblicalsandy

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The "You" word, always gets someone angry or extremely happy, even if their name was never even mentioned. I call it the Cinderella complex, and this is why. When talking about something or anything, and you mention "You" The writer, or spokesperson is like the Prince looking for the owner of the glass slipper. The person that it does not fit to, is Cinderella's stepsisters, and the one that it does apply to is Cinderella. The enemy is the Stepmother, is the one who is trying to deceive. Jesus being the fairy Godmother. I see scripture to a point here..believer, or non believer. I wonder if that is why "Thou" was used instead in scripture? Because "You" causes so much disturbance! Just pondering!
 
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biblicalsandy

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I do not see myself as an eloquent speaker, or writer..so I see if you don't understand
 
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KennethC

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The word you gets people mad because as long as they are the ones pointing out others failures or sins it is okay, but when it gets reversed on them and somebody tells them "you are doing," then they get mad because they do not want to face their own faults/sins.

This is where Jesus saying take the plank out of your own eye before helping to remove the speck in theirs !!!
(Matthew 7:4-5)
 
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The significance of the using the word "We" instead of "You" .

This word "We" is really magical. If someone commits a mistake and if we feel we just have to point his mistake to him, we usually say that "You are the cause of all the turmoil because you handled things carelessly". Certainly, at this point, his ego will be on full alert and he will not be able to listen what we were actually saying to him. Again if we make a simple replacement of word "You" by "We", the whole thing changes. For eg."We are the cause of all the turmoil because we handled things carelessly". Now, there is no blame game. We are enquiring together, if something has gone wrong. So nobody is left out and there is ample space and time for us to be introspective of ourself. -
Fidarose Isha.
 
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biblicalsandy said:
The "You" word, always gets someone angry or extremely happy, even if their name was never even mentioned. I call it the Cinderella complex, and this is why. When talking about something or anything, and you mention "You" The writer, or spokesperson is like the Prince looking for the owner of the glass slipper. The person that it does not fit to, is Cinderella's stepsisters, and the one that it does apply to is Cinderella. The enemy is the Stepmother, is the one who is trying to deceive. Jesus being the fairy Godmother. I see scripture to a point here..believer, or non believer. I wonder if that is why "Thou" was used instead in scripture? Because "You" causes so much disturbance! Just pondering!
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In Early Modern English (such as the KJV) the word "thou" was a singular pronoun and "you" was a plural pronoun. That's really all there is to it.

To get back on topic, as Willie points out above, we CAN often diffuse situations by simply using a careful choice of grammar.
I agree with that.
 
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biblicalsandy said:
The "You" word, always gets someone angry or extremely happy, even if their name was never even mentioned. I call it the Cinderella complex, and this is why. When talking about something or anything, and you mention "You" The writer, or spokesperson is like the Prince looking for the owner of the glass slipper. The person that it does not fit to is Cinderella's stepsisters, and the one that it does apply to is Cinderella. The enemy is the Stepmother, is the one who is trying to deceive. Jesus being the fairy Godmother. I see scripture to a point here..believer, or non-believer. I wonder if that is why "Thou" was used instead in scripture? Because "You" causes so much disturbance! Just pondering!
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Thou?
I would rather say "a person":)
 
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maxwel said:
In Early Modern English (such as the KJV) the word "thou" was a singular pronoun and "you" was a plural pronoun. That's really all there is to it.

To get back on topic, as Willie points out above, we CAN often diffuse situations by simply using a careful choice of grammar.
I agree with that.
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Therefore your single lens glass is a thou. :p
 
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oldthennew

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a great point...sandy..

what is easy for me, is that when led to speak to others about certain things,
that there is always that hint of remembrance of where I have come from -
and what I have done in relation to the subject at hand...
 
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lihle

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Many people even fellow Christians like to use the word 'you', I attend a multiracial church, there are back and white folks, there are South Africans and of different foreign nationals. When having a conversation some people often say ' you people' when making a point. It sounds like they are undermining the other group or seeing them as being different from them, and it just sounds mean whichever side it comes from.
 
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MrOhAllRight

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Ego gets in the way of EVERYTHING :(
 
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