What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system?
What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system?
Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I'm sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.
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"Most useful" is a pretty big role to fill but a proper second person plural would be great. The rednecks unironically got it best with y'all
¡For real😁 I use it all the time with my Texan friends and it's great! It's nice feeling like I'm speaking similar to them but also I didn't realise how much I use the words "you guys" outside of writing.
Well technically I think it's "you" and we used to have "thou" for singular. So, we had it and let it go.
Funny thing, I think that a plural you was dropped in the beginning because the Brits were trying to escape French and German royalty requiring formal address using the plural form.
I use "yous" when distinction is needed.
*youse *you (and use thou as singular again?)
Both are great 😃👍
"You all" are the words you're looking for. Y'all, is short for you all.
The phrase "you all" doesn't actually fit in the English standardization though and is itself just shorthand for "all of you [individuals]," which just highlights how clunky English handles second person plurals.
hence my preference for "YOU'UNS" because if you're going to be grammatically repugnant then embrace it.
Y'all is much more natural, there's nothing wrong with contractions.