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I would have just said thank you all. It's not that difficult, and I have yet to meet a native English speaker from outside the South that gets confused by using you in the plural form.
What if it's only 2 people, would you say thank you both? That sounds awkward. Thank you guys works, but it seems makeshift and clumsy. It would be much better if English just did what just about every other language does and have a dedicated 2nd person plural. Personally, I like yous the best.
What if it's only 2 people, would you say thank you both? That sounds awkward. Thank you guys works, but it seems makeshift and clumsy. It would be much better if English just did what just about every other language does and have a dedicated 2nd person plural. Personally, I like yous the best.
Move to Brooklyn. Dey been sayin youse fuh yee-az.
One will attempt a reply, is it not over due for those in that rather large country North of Mexico and South of Canada to realise they do not speak English but American ?
After all if one is proud that one is not English but American should one not have American as one's native tongue ?
I really don't think English needs to be changed, but when people feel the need for a plural you, they find a way to make one.
English is the most flexible, the language most suited for technology so there is no reason to change. Imagine languages where inanimate objects have gender. Or where you have to decide when talking to people whether you will use a formal you or an informal you with them and when it's plural then it's the informal you.
"Official"? Who do you propose is in the business of making decisions of "official" usage in the English language?
In case you're wondering, the second person plural personal pronoun is you.
Actually, I am darn near absolutly certain that I have never wondered that in my entire current existence and in any past ones as well. Duely noted and filed under random useless information.
English, it seems, is in dire need not of new words like amazeballs and frenemy, but a clear and distinct 2nd person plural. Many people resort to y'all, yet many of us deride this term as slang. Others use yous, but this is not very common. Still others use the ungainly "you all," and one city with a certain not-to-be-named yellow and black football team uses yinz (I'm from Cleveland y'all, think about it). With all this ambiguity, one thing is certain, the people of the united states need to make a decision on one 2nd person plural to unite us all. What do you think that should be?
The proper word is You. Your choices are DIALECT.
Oy veh. Youin's are getting on my last nerve, y'all.
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