Re:The pandemic turned my parents into day traders
by munificent on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:57PM
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> because we don’t have a 2nd person plural tense.
Case, not tense, technically. "Tense" is for verbs.
English does have a variety of ways of indicating second person plural: "ya'll", "y'ins", "you all", and "you guys" are the most common. It's a shame English discarded "ye".
I like your alternate suggestions. In my family, we started using "bro" as gender neutral, at first ironically and now it's just stuck. I call my daughters "bro" all the time.
Case, not tense, technically. "Tense" is for verbs.
English does have a variety of ways of indicating second person plural: "ya'll", "y'ins", "you all", and "you guys" are the most common. It's a shame English discarded "ye".
I like your alternate suggestions. In my family, we started using "bro" as gender neutral, at first ironically and now it's just stuck. I call my daughters "bro" all the time.