Talk:Monogatari Series/Koyomi Vamp/003

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This chapter has the first use of thee. I don't have any problem using the older form of speech, but thee is the objective (accusative/dative) form of thou (nominative), which has a possessive (genitive) form of thy or thine. For now I'm going to fix all uses of thee to thou or thy when it is clearly used in English where a nominative or genitive form of the pronoun should have been used.

Additionally I'm not quite comfortable with using "Thee!" to address someone who is being called. I'm reasonably sure that the nominative case should be used in that situation. The pronoun you is unfortunately used in both the nominative and objective cases in modern English so what case should be used is a bit unintuitive to a native English speaker, but in German the nominative case would definitely be used, so I'm inclined to believe that Middle English would also use the nominative case. Therefore I'm also going to change "Thee!" to "Thou!". If any translator feels like the objective case should be used instead of the nominative case then they can feel free to revert those changes.

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