On: Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?

[bhickey]

Hemingway's abuse of language in For Whom the Bell Tolls always drove me. He uses you in place of tu and thou as usted.

[maaku → bhickey]

That's how the words are typically understood among modern English speakers...

[gruseom → bhickey]

Do you have an example? That seems like a howler that surely his editor would have caught if he didn't.

[andyjohnson0 → gruseom]

It was intentional. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls#Languag...