[Magdalen] Nadia Bolz-Weber

[ME Michaud]

We in the USA have several ways around it,
there's y'all and y'all y'all
there's you guys (our local usage)
and youze guys.

But it's an ongoing issue.
-M

On Thursday, September 17, 2015, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 17/09/2015 21:57, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> I love my language, our beautiful native English,
>> but I hate the fact that the singular you and the plural you
>> are so easily confused :-(
>>
>
> Do we need to go back to "thou" and "ye"?  The laugh in that is that some
> regard addressing God as "thou" is more respectful than saying "you",
> totally missing the fact that using the second person singular (thou) is
> unambiguously more intimate, the way you would address a child or close
> family member whereas you would use the plural form (ye) for a
> superordinate.
>
> Roger
>