Y'all is useful because English is sorely lacking the second person plural.
Technically, it's that we've made the second person plural all-encompassing. ("Thou" vs. "you".)
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
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juliana - Nov 05, 2007 2:19:38 pm PST #2744 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Pix - Nov 05, 2007 2:21:52 pm PST #2745 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Edited because I reread Juliana's post and realized that that was exactly what she was saying. Doh!
JZ - Nov 05, 2007 2:22:03 pm PST #2746 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I can get by without a second-person plural, but oh how I miss the intimacy of "thou." Second-person singular familiar rocks!
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 2:22:35 pm PST #2747 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
that tag closes?
omnis_audis - Nov 05, 2007 2:28:01 pm PST #2748 of 10002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ok, in the category of funny coincidences, I finally finish packing up big sea bag of laundry, and, in one fell swoop, heave it on to the bed and collapse on said bed. Before I could exhale, Mr. iPod starts playing "Get up, stand up". As I turn to curse the random music generator I notice that the clock its sitting in says 4:20.
A double coincidence! Love it! Ok off to clean said bag o' laundry.
juliana - Nov 05, 2007 2:28:16 pm PST #2749 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My understanding is that thou isn't actually plural--it's informal singular
If that was to me, that's indeed what I was trying to say.
Pix - Nov 05, 2007 2:28:56 pm PST #2750 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I just edited my post once I re-read. I thought you were saying something else. Brain=tired. Sorry!
-t - Nov 05, 2007 2:40:52 pm PST #2751 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So was "you" both informal plural and formal singular?
amych - Nov 05, 2007 2:50:11 pm PST #2752 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
-t, it was formal singular and all plurals -- like vous or Sie.
-t - Nov 05, 2007 2:51:44 pm PST #2753 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Neat, I did not know that. That that was the case in English or that it was a pattern across several languages. I did not know any of that.
Eta: now that I have learned something today I'm fixin' to let my brain shut down to basic life-support