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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 months agoEnglish already has a plural pronoun: “you”. It’s the singular that we’ve lost: “thou”.
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 months agoEnglish already has a plural pronoun: “you”. It’s the singular that we’ve lost: “thou”.
mriormro@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The nice thing about languages is that they evolve, change, reconfigure, and adapt. They are not sacred things, but tools we use and manipulate. While we may have something similar, the utility needs of our words change over time and over regions. In certain parts of the United States and elsewhere ‘y’all’ has filed in the linguistic gap.