Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Heh, as a southerner not living in the south I find y’all is an excellent choice for a singular pronoun too. It dodges the sex issue and people already think you’re a moron so it’s neutral in those terms. Plus, they don’t really know if that’s how the term is actually used so they won’t call you on it.
This dish is desiccated.
And carbon dated, evidently.
Eye use homophones inn my oral communications. Ewe dew knot notice it, butt inn righting it out, ewe dew. Write "rite" right, Wright
Must be a dish off the desert menu.
what dry humor.
I don’t know whether to be honored or embarrassed. Or both.
“You” refers to MORE THAN ONE PERSON, thou dumbass.
S/he DOES exist !!!
No, you is singular. The plural is y’all.
No, y’all is singular. The plural is all y’all.
What are youse going on about?
You-uns don’t know proper English!
I’m impressed by how many people are on top of thier english.At the same time i’m crying tears of laughter reading these posts. Thank you for bringing fresh humor into my day.
The above post literally made my soul smile.
Not if you’re using thou for singular like Steve MB was.
Blogged about this in 2012. It’s a fairly thorough explanation and not a long one.
http://tapu-tapu-tapu.blogspot.com/2012/05/argument-for-generic-singular-they.html
Have y’all heard of the Swedish word “hen”? New, custom-made, gender-neutral term, to be used instead of the awkward “han eller hon” (meaning “he or she”) whenever the dude/dudette’s gender is unknown.
Everybody knows hens lay eggs.