Is it necessary to distinguish inclusiveness in possessive

From:    Joe <joe@...>
> Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> >Why does tha think English has half ass patches
> >like "y'all" to begin with?
>
> I suppose part of it is a natural result of hijacking number
> distinctions for politeness distinctions.  Sometimes.  After people
> started to get all polite to everyone, the singular just vanished, I
> suppose.  To be etymologically correct, perhaps 'y'one' would make more
> sense.  ;-)
In fact, in parts of West Virginia and Ohio, the second persons
plural pronoun is [j@nz] (< 'you ones').  I expect this will die
out along with "you guys" as "y'all" pushes out all competitors
within a century or two, at the latest.  (Heck, "y'all" is already
all over the Midwest.)

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