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What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world to c/neography@lemmy.world

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Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I'm sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"Most useful" is a pretty big role to fill but a proper second person plural would be great. The rednecks unironically got it best with y'all

[–] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well technically I think it's "you" and we used to have "thou" for singular. So, we had it and let it go.

[–] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

¡For real😁 I use it all the time with my Texan friends and it's great! It's nice feeling like I'm speaking similar to them but also I didn't realise how much I use the words "you guys" outside of writing.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

*youse *you (and use thou as singular again?)

[–] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Both are great 😃👍

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Funny thing, I think that a plural you was dropped in the beginning because the Brits were trying to escape French and German royalty requiring formal address using the plural form.

I use "yous" when distinction is needed.