And what language and region is it?

I've noticed my language teacher uses the informal you in one language and the formal one in the other.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm certain there is no situation like that. It's just a dead part of the language. Most native speakers don't even know how to use it properly when imitating old-timey speech.

Quakers use "thee/thou" sometimes, but only because the movement has been around since just before the end of the shift to "you" for everything, and it's fossilised in as a result. There's a few weird British Isles dialects that preserve it too, but they're not widespread.

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