--- Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> > "y'all" [ja:l] (hate English's lacks of a clear 2pl)
>
> But of course it does! yas! And what's more, it's regular! How's
> that? :P (Which is only allowed in unstressed syllables in my
> idiolect,
> but most people around me happily say 'youse'.)
Actually, in my opinion the issue is that English doesn't have an
unambiguous 2sg. There are unambiguous 2pl's, though they vary from
dialect to dialect:
youguys /yugaiz/ (mine)
yous/youse/yas
y'all
are all unambiguously 2pl
But "you" can be 2sg or 2pl.
Estel
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