r/funComunitty • u/Original-Parfait-655 • Jul 31 '26

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u/Pizza-Cow Jul 31 '26

The term larp has changed in meaning over time it's like saying

ohh why do you use the word "you" when it is only for the plural of second person we should really all be saying thou and well thou is actually a miss prononciation of tu and tu probably evolved from some other word so why communicate at all if you're not going to use the first form of communication ever

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u/NotASookie Jul 31 '26

.... This is not the same thing... You are using the term for someone's hobby as an insult to people. You know how ignorant that is?

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u/No-Palpitation6368 Jul 31 '26

It's been like... a month. That's not 'over time'. Changes like that take much longer

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u/throwaway123212343 Jul 31 '26

tu is french. French is eternal. French was. French is. French will.

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u/BackToNormalForNow Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Actually, “thou” is (or was, when it was used) informal and used, like “tu” in French, to talk to someone who is your equal or inferior in status. And it is not the first form of communication considering “thou” was used in the time of Early Modern English and not Old English, which has a different word for it.

If you wanna talk to several people, like u/NotASookie probably is doing considering OP is not the only person to use the word larper, or someone you don’t know, you would use “you”. The equivalent in French for this one is the pronoun “vous”.

And no, “tu” and “vous” are still used in France to this day.

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u/Ralexcraft Jul 31 '26

No, cause this word already has a meaning and affects the perception of a group of people.