Wednesday, October 27, 2010

From the Johnson blog

Oh, you guys

Oct 27th 2010, 15:53 by T.W. | MEXICO CITY

TALKING to other people in English is easy: they are all “you”. No distinction between formal and informal, nor between singular and plural: a lone friend is “you”; a roomful of strangers is “you” too. Many other languages have four different personal pronouns where English makes do with one.

Or does it?

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