Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> I
>see this as the single most annoying, confusing, and intolerable part of
>the
>language: failure to make a singular-plural distinction in the second
>person
>pronouns. "You guys" can't always cover the plural, as it's very
>colloquial
>and often inappropriate. I've often heard English speakers say something
>like "you, and with you I mean all of you, as a nation, not you
>personally..." to me.

As a native English speaker, if I feel I need  a definite distinction
between singular and plural, I say "you all". The colloquial form is y'all
:). But, i find that annoying, to not have a definate pronoun for it.
Something I also dislike is not having an inclusive and exclusive we.
Sometimes it gets annoying to have to tell people "I mean we, as in the
people I was talking about and myself, not including you" to clarify. This
is what I really like about Tagalog, it has an inclusive, and exclusive
we, which I incorporated into Saalangal.

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