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This really freaking speaks to my soul…

This is actually very depressing because this basically means I’ve worked for nothing… I’m too used to decisions being made before me, so i depended on things like this to keep me on track, because if I wasn’t pushed to be a nurse, I don’t know where the fuck I’d be right now…

No man, you’re misunderstanding the message. If the system has worked well for you, then awesome! You’re one of the people that the standardizing school is well tailored too.

But you’re only one person of millions, and a standard system doesn’t work well for all of them. For those of us who are the outliers, it’s brutal to be pushed into that system

The system is square shaped. And for square shaped people it works just fine! But for the triangle, circle, star, etc. shaped people who don’t fit, it’s harsh because we’re still expected to, and accused of failing.

It’s not a fair system for everyone, but again, if it works for you, good! It sounds like you’re in a good place from it.

I have a few disagreements, but here’s not the place to talk about them. I’ll leave this as it is.

If I did this right, this should be my 1515th post.

EDIT: I’ve removed some posts before this, so this would actually be my 1509th.

http://fluttershyponders.tumblr.com/post/74486871143/pinkie-yeah-and-how-come-ponies-keep-not

Okay, serious answer time.

There are two distinct uses of "ye”: The first means “the” and the second means “you all” (back when “thou” meant “you” in the singular). These two aren’t related.

The first use (in “Ye Old Shop”, for example), actually comes from an letter called thorn (uppercase: Þ, lowercase: þ), which represents the “th” sound. (It survives today only in Icelandic.) The word “the” used to be written as “þe”, but people started using “th” (probably after the French conquered England). Despite this, some people kept the thorn and used “y” as a substitute, because printing type from other countries didn’t have the thorn. This results in “ye” meaning “the”; it does not mean “you all”.

EDIT: The title of this post was originally “If ‘Ye’ Means 'The’…”, which does not reflect the issue being discussed.