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My take is that "uneducated" people with "undisciplined" language spontaneously create their own plural second person pronouns wherever they go because, well, t
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
My 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…