B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 19, 2015

I dunno…

and the answer is what’s on second .

Wikipedia has a mind-numbingly thorough discussion of what linguists call T-V, the use of different second-person pronouns to reflect social status, age, wealth, power, etc. One of the reasons I rejoice in being born into the English language is that English gave up all that thou/thee/you/ye junk centuries ago.

Love A & C. Just watched with my daughter.Let’s all enjoy the full routine.

Pronoun trouble. It’s not: “He doesn’t have to shoot you now.” It’s: “He doesn’t have to shoot me now.” Well, I say he does have to shoot me now!

What’s he so MAD about

Don’t say “Si”, say “Oui”!

“We’re all ye for not he…”

If we’re listening to all of us, then why are you talking?

Hear me, hear me. How can you be me? I’m me.

Well, whatever all of y’all come up with, try to avoid “ye all” – sounds like a donkey

Around Pittsburgh it’d be “Hear Yinz, Hear Yinz!”

Well tanks a bunch! Now I is all confusid…

Ye Gevalt!

Various comments:It’s “Kiddest thou?”, at least in form, tho(ugh) I doubt “kid” was ever used then except for goats.A Southerner once told me the plural of “y’all” is “all y’all”.Never heard “yinz” but have heard “yiz”.Every not-invented language is nonsensical, but consider that relatively logical German has “der/die/das/den/dem/des” where we have just “the”, and the occasional sillinesses in English seem quite minor…except for our awful spelling: DOWN WITH GH!!