English archaism- Thy

[Lucije]

Hi, I would like to ask you about this - I wanted my favorite person to sign a photography for me. My name is Lucy and he wrote there: “THY LUCY” and his autograph. Could you please tell me what does it means?

I have been trying to look it up but still I don’t understand. Thank you for your help.

Lucy

 

[Tarheel]

Hi, I would like to ask you about this - I wanted my favorite person to sign a photograp[STRIKE]y[/STRIKE] for me. My name is Lucy and he wrote there: “THY LUCY” and signed it. Could you please tell me what [STRIKE]does[/STRIKE] it means?

I have been trying to look it up but still I don’t understand. Thank you for your help.

Lucy

It means nothing to me.

(How can you thank me before I have helped you?)

 

[emsr2d2]

It means nothing to me. Is it definitely "THY" not the non-standard "THX" (perhaps attempting to thank you for your support). Could you post a photo of the words?

 

[SoothingDave]

For future reference, "thy" is an old form of the possessive "your."

Like the Catholic "Hail Mary" prayer:

Blessed art thou amongst women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus

In modern terms:

Blessed are you among women
And blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus

 

[teechar]

Welcome to the forum, Lucije.
Was that person a native English speaker?
Are you sure he wrote "thy"?

 

[Lucije]

Hi , thank you. Yes, he is from Cali. I dont know - is it possible he thought it was “my” instead of “your”? Well how could you know, right . Thank you anyway for nice reply!

 

[SoothingDave]

EMS had the best idea. It's a "THX" as in "thanks."

 

[Tarheel]

Lucije, how did you learn Valley Girl slang?

 

[Lucije]

I dont understand rn. Is it good or bad? I dont speak English very well so maybe I used some words in a bad way but didnt mean it.

 

[Lucije]

That “how could you know” wasnt an irony. Because how could you know what he meant. Just a fact. So hope you didn’t get me wrong .

 

[tedmc]

"Thanks (thy/thx), Lucy (for your support as a fan)" makes some sense, though not very much.

 

[Tdol]

I've never seen it used. The mistake for Thx sounds more like to me.

 

[Tarheel]

likely

 

[Rover_KE]

It's definitely not the English archaism 'thy', Lucy.

 

[Lucije]

Ok, thank you so much for answering

 

[Rover_KE]

OK, thank you so much for answering. [STRIKE][/STRIKE]

Please don't use a home-made smiley to replace a standard punctuation mark.

Just click 'Thank'. It saves time for everybody.

 

[Tarheel]

OK! Thank you so much for answering.

I respond from my profile page. I always hope to find a post that actually says something.

 

[GoesStation]

Yes, he is from Cali.

Then his native language is probably Spanish, not English — Cali is in the central American country of Colombia.

Or did you mean California?