[erlang-questions] Fwd: Erlang Job for $5000 in Saint-Petersburg

[Håkan Huss]

Well, in some southern regions "y'all" denotes second person singular.
Second person plural would be "all y'all" :-)

/Håkan

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Jesse Gumm <gumm@REDACTED> wrote:
> Or, for that matter, a non-ambiguous second person plural. I'm
> personally fine with "y'all" despite not being from the American
> South.
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jesse Gumm <gumm@REDACTED> wrote:
>> It's too bad English doesn't maintain a public repo where we can
>> submit a patch to deal with fact that the language lacks support for
>> such a fundamental and critical language feature as third person,
>> gender-neutral, singulars to indicate a person (as opposed to just
>> using "it").
>>
>> -Jesse
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, David Mercer <dmercer@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 26, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 26/04/2012, at 9:08 PM, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > fwiw colloquial British English uses "their" for his/her ("they" for
>>>> he/she, and "them" for him/her).  It's quite serviceable.
>>>>
>>>> However some native speakers of English find that unappealing.
>>>
>>> Indeed, also confusing.  Just last week, a colleague was talking about
>>> someone who was interested in transferring from another department, but to
>>> conceal identity was using gender-neutral plurals.  I actually thought she
>>> was talking about multiple people until I asked her how many people she was
>>> talking about.
>>>
>>>> Note that English has _almost_ entirely abandoned grammatical
>>>> gender, so that people think of pronouns as referring to sex.
>>>
>>> Almost?  Abandoned?  (1) I didn't know English ever had grammatical gender;
>>> (2) I didn't know there were still remnants of it around.  (Unless you're
>>> talking about referring to ships in the feminine third person, though I
>>> thought that was sailor tradition rather than grammar.)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> DBM
>>>
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