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echo: pol_inc
to: MARK LEWIS
from: EARL CROASMUN
date: 2003-06-05 12:52:12
subject: Second Bill of Rights

->  BF>    It's not my fault that English has no means to distinguish
->  BF> between second person singular and plural...

-> what's wrong with "you" for singular" and "you
all" or "you folk" or some such?
-> sure seems to me to be a method of distinguishing singular from plural...

-> ya'll come back, heah?

That is the correct useage, and it survived for centuries in rural
areas, mountains, and the Southern United States.  But now, if someone
uses the second person plural, there will be a snob nearby who won't
understand and will take it as a sign of a lack of education.  But we
get our own snickers in when the snob tries to mimic it and winds up
incorrectly using "ya'll" when referring to a single person.

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