[brlug-general] the short answer.

[Dustin Puryear]

Yeah, good point. I remember when taking Spanish that it made a lot of
sense to me to have two ways of saying "you", unlike English where you
to go through contortions to make the distinction between the singular
and plural you.

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Fernando Vilas wrote:
> On Saturday 22 September 2007 13:16:52 Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> Did they say "ya'll"? ;)
>>
> 
> Spanish has a formal and familiar version of "you", and each has a singular 
> and plural.  They were using the plural familiar form, which is very common 
> in Spain, but somewhat less so elsewhere.  And the closest English 
> approximation I've ever come up with for it is "y'all", as opposed to "you 
> sirs".  
> 
> 
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