@unmind one more fun fact then i promise ill stop 🙏 preclassical (so like, vedic and epic) sanskrit didn't have a formal/informal distinction in the 2nd person and the epics were what i was rlly interested in when i started, but by the height of classical sanskrit literature that distinction had developed and then the informal 2nd person had all but died out and u basically only get the formal (which is gramatically 3rd person like in lots of other languages) so i was super confused when i started looking at stuff made for learning classical sanskrit and saw these totally different 2nd person pronouns that didnt use the 2nd person forms i knew