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Does it say "y'all"?

• esafak 1y ago
  No, it says youse.
  • eru 1y ago
    Alas, English used to have a perfectly fine 'thou', but then people abandoned it. And now they are re-inventing the same distinction. Now just wait until people address a single other person with youse, and then have to make up yous'all to address groups. (Evolution of language is fascinating. I'm just pretending to be upset.)
    • thfuran 1y ago
      Ye is really the missing piece.
    • deleted 1y ago
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    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > English used to have a perfectly fine 'thou' Thou was second-person singular. Y’all is second-person plural.
      • mkl 1y ago
        "You" used to be the second person plural, as a counterpart to "thou".
        • eru 1y ago
          Exactly. And y'all had to be invented, because 'you' became ambiguous.
    • anton-c 1y ago
      A user named eru likes language, I'm not surprised! Big fan of linguistics and philology myself too. Edit: Also 'youse guys' is for groups I thought, but maybe you're keeping it to one word contractions, haha
  • mattnewton 1y ago
    ^yinz