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Grandpa

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Mar 2, 2014
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I like "y'all." It provides a second-person plural pronoun where one didn't exist before. First-person and third-person have their plurals. Why not second-person? Why is it left out? I cannot sit silent any longer. I am pro-pronoun plurality!!





Edit: I just realized this is the football thread. Uhhh... go Broncos!
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
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Poconos, PA
I like "y'all." It provides a second-person plural pronoun where one didn't exist before. First-person and third-person have their plurals. Why not second-person? Why is it left out? I cannot sit silent any longer. I am pro-pronoun plurality!!





Edit: I just realized this is the football thread. Uhhh... go Broncos!
What is your opinion on the usage of 'youse?' As in... Youse guys have no friggin idea how bad them Jets gonna beat their skulls in come Sunday! (sticking with the football theme n'all) :)
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
22,864
129,998
Poconos, PA
So it can have a double meaning for y'all too? Interesting...... Maybe you and I are more alike than I thought.....
and I was polite........dammit ;;D
Yup, it’s all in the inflection. Never heard it from my mom, though. With her being from Ireland, between the ages of 8 to 16 I thought she had changed my name to ‘eejit.’