But now that we’re part reading comprehension, I can point out that food deserts exist in Europe as well. Both in the rich counties and those pesky Eastern ones you like to block out of your head.
Y’all notice the lack of truly hard data. Turns out the yuros just ain’t monitoring and it’s highly likely through correlation to be very underreported.
First of all, speak English, this isn’t Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville.
Secondly, oh no “hard data” on European food deserts? Because we really don’t have them like the US. Even if our cities tried planning as shit as yours, around a completely car centric culture, they really can’t because the routes and buildings that have existed for centuries just don’t allow for that. And that’s saying if we even had someone doing that. We don’t.
Compare public transport and social security in EU vs US.
Stark contrast.
Compare design philosophy of cities.
Stark contrast.
Compare to American food regulation.
Stark contrast.
I know you never want to admit that the US is worse in anything, but now you’re just genuinely being ridiculous.
In the US you sometimes literally can’t walk out of a neighbourhood, because anything surrounding it is private land and there’s no curb to walk on. So get driven over or shot by some angry land owner. And that wasn’t me making that up, word for word for Americans said in a thread not long ago.
I can walk through any fucking field or woods I feel like, no matter who owns it.
Oh akd also everyone’s not strapped so even if they did get mad, my chances of getting shot are way smaller.
The US is a garbage country and the sooner you accept it the sooner we can fix it.
All right I have to push back here, y’all is a perfectly good word. We don’t have a good second person plural in English. It serves a very good purpose.
No, you lack a second person singular, but that’s just because thou refuses to employ it, not because it doesn’t exist.
English personal pronouns
The second-person singular pronouns are thou, thee, thy, thine, thyself.
Personally I’d prefer using the already existing 2nd person singular instead of starting to use “y’all” for a second person plural, but my opinion doesn’t really matter here, so you know, fuck me and you do you.
Buddy what on Earth are you talking about? You is the second person singular, its also 2nd person plural hence my comment. You all, or y’all, on the other hand is strictly 2nd person plural.
You is used as a second person singular in modern Southern-American English (ie Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville), but “thou” is the existing and non-used second person singular.
Why would you even ask about this when it’s so fucking easy to Google it?
The word thou (/ðaʊ/) is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you, although it remains in use in parts of Northern England and in Scots (/ðu:/ dhoo). Thou is the nominative form; the oblique/objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative); the possessive is thy (adjective) or thine (as an adjective before a vowel or as a possessive pronoun); and the reflexive is thyself.
Note that it doesn’t say “completely unused or archaic”. No. It’s largely archaic, and mostly replaced by the second person plural “you”. MOSTLY.
You seem to not know English well so I’ll just note that “mostly” means a different thing than “completely.” And “remains in use” means it’s still used.
In the 18th century, Samuel Johnson, in A Grammar of the English Tongue, wrote: “in the language of ceremony … the second person plural is used for the second person singular”,
He didn’t write “the second person singular is used for the second person plural”, but the other way.
Thou are just dead wrong, which is very easy to check, but thou will never admit to it.
What on Earth are you babbling about? I didn’t mention the word thou in my comment. You said that English lacked a second person singular.
No, you lack a second person singular…
You is the second person singular. Not just in southern America but everywhere. You used it multiple times already. The fact thay thou is also second person singular is irrelevant. You typed all of that for no reason whatsoever.
You don’t understand the basics of linguistics and currently you’re arguing against an established fact. Your opinion doesn’t matter fuck all.
Just because you don’t use a second person singular (ie the colloquial language lacks one, especially in Southern Usa) doesn’t mean you don’t have one.
Not just in southern America but everywhere
No matter how much you cry and whine, you’re still wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Did I say all? No most…
But now that we’re part reading comprehension, I can point out that food deserts exist in Europe as well. Both in the rich counties and those pesky Eastern ones you like to block out of your head.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36360732/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143622823003156
https://www.slowfood.com/blog-and-news/how-food-injustice-impacts-lives-in-europe/
Y’all notice the lack of truly hard data. Turns out the yuros just ain’t monitoring and it’s highly likely through correlation to be very underreported.
Don’t even get me started on Asia.
Oh my god the fucking fragility and whataboutism.
No one ever said other countries don’t have food desert problems. They absolutely do.
Your original comment is just disingenuous when there are millions of people suffering because of the in the US, and millions more elsewhere as well.
Do you not know what most means? If I said billionaires owned most of the wealth would you be screeching over is usage?
What about 85%+ and my usage of most do you most specifically take issue with?
First of all, speak English, this isn’t Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville.
Secondly, oh no “hard data” on European food deserts? Because we really don’t have them like the US. Even if our cities tried planning as shit as yours, around a completely car centric culture, they really can’t because the routes and buildings that have existed for centuries just don’t allow for that. And that’s saying if we even had someone doing that. We don’t.
Compare public transport and social security in EU vs US.
Stark contrast.
Compare design philosophy of cities.
Stark contrast.
Compare to American food regulation.
Stark contrast.
I know you never want to admit that the US is worse in anything, but now you’re just genuinely being ridiculous.
In the US you sometimes literally can’t walk out of a neighbourhood, because anything surrounding it is private land and there’s no curb to walk on. So get driven over or shot by some angry land owner. And that wasn’t me making that up, word for word for Americans said in a thread not long ago.
I can walk through any fucking field or woods I feel like, no matter who owns it.
Oh akd also everyone’s not strapped so even if they did get mad, my chances of getting shot are way smaller.
The US is a garbage country and the sooner you accept it the sooner we can fix it.
All right I have to push back here, y’all is a perfectly good word. We don’t have a good second person plural in English. It serves a very good purpose.
No, you lack a second person singular, but that’s just because thou refuses to employ it, not because it doesn’t exist.
Personally I’d prefer using the already existing 2nd person singular instead of starting to use “y’all” for a second person plural, but my opinion doesn’t really matter here, so you know, fuck me and you do you.
Buddy what on Earth are you talking about? You is the second person singular, its also 2nd person plural hence my comment. You all, or y’all, on the other hand is strictly 2nd person plural.
You is used as a second person singular in modern Southern-American English (ie Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville), but “thou” is the existing and non-used second person singular.
Why would you even ask about this when it’s so fucking easy to Google it?
Note that it doesn’t say “completely unused or archaic”. No. It’s largely archaic, and mostly replaced by the second person plural “you”. MOSTLY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
You seem to not know English well so I’ll just note that “mostly” means a different thing than “completely.” And “remains in use” means it’s still used.
He didn’t write “the second person singular is used for the second person plural”, but the other way.
Thou are just dead wrong, which is very easy to check, but thou will never admit to it.
What on Earth are you babbling about? I didn’t mention the word thou in my comment. You said that English lacked a second person singular.
You is the second person singular. Not just in southern America but everywhere. You used it multiple times already. The fact thay thou is also second person singular is irrelevant. You typed all of that for no reason whatsoever.
Like I said, you’ll never accept being wrong.
You don’t understand the basics of linguistics and currently you’re arguing against an established fact. Your opinion doesn’t matter fuck all.
Just because you don’t use a second person singular (ie the colloquial language lacks one, especially in Southern Usa) doesn’t mean you don’t have one.
No matter how much you cry and whine, you’re still wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
I know “y’all” have a hard time with literacy and English in general, but even you should be able to understand what “remains in use” means.
Yet thou said “everywhere”, almost as if thou is having trouble accepting thy mistakes…? ;>
I prefer the Made in Yurop word “youse” myself.
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