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🦋 Thou

If I were translating El Libro de Eva, I would certainly use "thou/thee" and the appropriate conjugations to translate and its verbs. "¡desobediciste!" -> "thou hast disobeyed!", not "you have disobeyed!". (And not "thou disobeyedest", that's just silly)

(In sections written as dialogue between Eve's narrative voice and an unseen interlocutor, "you" would be more appropriate.)

posted afternoon of Monday, November 30th, 2020
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