Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> > > He's a yall, now? Gosh. ;)
> >
> > Don't act so shocked;
>
> I'm not. Kindly note the " ;) "!
>
> Actually, what shocks me is "yall", which is a
> form I don't usually use. I'd use either "you"
> /ju/ or "ye" /ji/ or /jI/.
Bah, the correct plural of 'you' is 'yas', donchas know?

> And anyway, it's perfectly good English to switch
> from thou to you in the same sentence. Has been
> for centuries.
Yeah, but it's always much funner* to turn someone into the plural with a
grammatical oddity then speak archaically, and don't you dispute that or I
may be forced to cosh you on the head and drag yas to a conveniently
placed ditch :)

* I'd always wondered why that sounded odd till that discussion we had
here a while ago...

--
Tristan.

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