• Ferk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    In the past, English had "thou" for 2nd person singular and "you" was exclusive to the 2nd person plural.

    I don't see why that can't happen with "they" vs "he/she" too.

    Though it's a bit sad that it would likely result in a more ambiguous language that could potentially lead to misunderstandings. Unless we start to use constructs like "they all" for adding specificity, in a similar way as how "you all" (or y'all) is sometimes used.

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      1 year ago

      They+all=th'all? Adding this to my lexicon. Y'all is sacred to me, being from the south. Th'all shall be canonized along with it.

      Absolutely if anyone has a problem with that, th'all can go fuck themselves.

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          1 year ago

          It really is. I love that word so much. I grew up with it as completely normal, and when I got a little older got picked on for using it in our largish city we'd moved to. Now everyone uses it. But old Old Believers never stopped.