Comment on How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (2013)Comments−comrade111yWhy doesn't English have a plural you like German? Do the other Germanic languages have plural you?−switch00711y"You" is plural. According to [1] "you" and "ye" were plural (and "thou" (nominative), "thee" (accusative), "thy" (gen) and "thine" (gen) were singular). Fascinating![1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22194/did-englis...−brc11yThe collective 'you' is the same as the singular. Just like fish and sheep.It's incorrect to create a collective 'you' in the same way it's incorrect to say 'sheep'. But English is open source, so whatever.Ironically, I'm from New Orleans apparently.
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Why doesn't English have a plural you like German? Do the other Germanic languages have plural you?
"You" is plural. According to [1] "you" and "ye" were plural (and "thou" (nominative), "thee" (accusative), "thy" (gen) and "thine" (gen) were singular). Fascinating!
[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22194/did-englis...
The collective 'you' is the same as the singular. Just like fish and sheep.
It's incorrect to create a collective 'you' in the same way it's incorrect to say 'sheep'. But English is open source, so whatever.
Ironically, I'm from New Orleans apparently.