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> I's the by that build the boat. > You's the by that sail 'er. — Wait, that's singular.... I think? Does it change again when you go further east? ....Or act
by Intralexical 3y ago
> I's the by that build the boat.
> You's the by that sail 'er.
— Wait, that's singular.... I think? Does it change again when you go further east? ....Or actually, is the second line also "I"?
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoMy take is that "uneducated" people with "undisciplined" language spontaneously create their own plural second person pronouns wherever they go because, well, the language has needed them ever since they were lost from Anglo-Saxon ("ge", pronounced "ye"). I vote we just bring back this "ye" and make it official.
- Intralexical 3y agoAh, indeed. The plague of prescriptivism, as a gross exclusionary method of filtering social status, holding us back…