æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ some asshole during a random inspection: do you have a license to be vaporeon?

@vaporeon_ vaporeon certification get

@vaporeon_ (oh, and again newfoundland english is again strictly speaking a family of dialectal variations)

@moo call them Air cause they’re always high in the sky

@vaporeon_ in order, Ireland (really “hiberno-english” is a family of dialects spoken in the country), and the purrovince of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, which fur some purrobably interesting historical reason speaks a noticably diffurent dialect of english from the rest of Canada

@vaporeon_ seems that the usage drives from a singular/plural distinction; from what i can tell “ye” more or less essentially just becomes “you” eventually, and its other inflected forms reflect this fact (so still your, yours, yourselves)

HOWEVER, in Hiberno‐English and Newfoundland English, where “ye” is still used today, it has gained the inflected forms yeer, yeers, yeerselves, corresponding to your, yours, yourselves. neat!

@vaporeon_ good question! i don’t know!

@vaporeon_ yes, so long as you don’t mind coming off quite old-timey

@vaporeon_ (if you’ve ever seen a phrase like “ye olde toy shoppe”, that’s just the word “the”, completely sepurrate from the other kind of “ye” you were talking about.)

(and in case i have accidentally misled you, the sense of “ye” that means “you [plural]” is purronounced “yee” like you would expect)

@vaporeon_ yes. the word is archaic in most dialects of english nowadays

(there is also another, now archaic, sense where it means, and is exactly purronouced like, “the”. fur a period of time the anglo-saxon letter thorn was transliterated into modern english as “y”)

mornyawn, and also, hey @clock

@vaporeon_ return to Mt. Veeveerest ​

@vaporeon_ ah, i misunderstood, sorry

@vaporeon_ SSD benchmarks say “yes, by a very long mile”

souvenir shop at the north pole called st. nick’s knacks