December 8, 2008
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Okay, I'm getting sick and tired. And also I'm getting sick and tired of trying to figure out a way to say "you" and make it obvious that it's in the plural. I like that "you" can mean either singular or plural, it comes in so handy so often, but sometimes I want to make it specifically one or the other.
In consideration of that, I nominate the word "yiu", pronounced "EEoo", to be the new singular second-person pronoun, and "yius", pronounced "EEoos", to be the plural second-person pronoun. "You", still pronounced the same way, will be the indefinite second-person pronoun. This way, when I speak, everyone can be certain whether I'm speaking just to yiu or all of yius. And I can still talk to you, feeling good about being inclusive but safe in being exclusive, just like I feel right now.
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She's right you know.
Or, if you can't bear the disgrace of using colloquial language, you could go archaic & use thee/thou for singular & ye/you for plural. I have a nice little piece of paper around here somewhere that will tell you what parts of speech to use them in.
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