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ELI5: Why does English not have a formal 'you' unlike other languages descended from Latin, like Italian?
gpt
“You” *is* formal, as well as plural. What modern English lost was the familiar/singular “thou.” There's a line ~~in one of Shakespeare's plays where one character says to another~~ about Sir Walter Raleigh “I thou thee, thou traitor!” The use of “thou” in this implies that the speaker thinks so little of his listener that he refuses to use the formal pronoun. 

Besides that, English is a Germanic language. Not a Romance language. It simply has a *lot* of words and influence from Latin, French, and Greek, especially in law and science.