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stead of which, we're scrollin your punishment
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guysAnd, of course, there's absolutely NO discrepancy of gender when you use the phrase "Guys and Dolls!" Oh-oh, the PC Police are after me!...blame Frank Loesser and Damon Runyon! It's not my fault it's immortalized!  Besides, Dolls was a New York expression, so it must be worth a reprieve, right Of Troy???... No!...No, not the handcuffs, please! 
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The proper term for people of either sex...I thought it was "bisexuals" Rod
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With "you" on its own,one can't easily discern whether 2nd person singular or plural is implied. This problem, like so many others, does not exist in other European languages.In the context of "guys", "you lot" this is true, at least amongst the European languages I know a bit of. However, the problem reappears for some contexts in French, German, and Czech (at least) with the use of the 2nd person plural for the polite form. Does anyone know of a list (or can we compile one between us) of languages which use the 2nd person plural as a polite form for the singular. Italian and Spanish have polite forms but they are distinct. Please correct any inaccuracies in the above. As if you needed any prompting . Rod
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2nd person plural as a polite form for the singular. Italian and Spanish have polite forms but they are distinct.
Even in Italian it is possible to find the 2nd person plural as a polite form, but it is archaic or southerner.
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The proper term for people of either sex...Rod thought it was "bisexuals" Don't you mean "ambisexuals"?
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Does anyone know of a list (or can we compile one between us) of languages which use the 2nd person plural as a polite form for the singular. Italian and Spanish have polite forms but they are distinct.
Turkish.
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"ambisexuals"Oi troid ridin' one o they fings, but me hands kept slippin orf the andlebars
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.......concave or convex to fit either sex.....
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2nd person plural as a polite form for the singular. Italian and Spanish have polite forms but they are distinct.
Even in Italian it is possible to find the 2nd person plural as a polite form, but it is archaic or southerner.
Same is true for Spanish, although the full form of the 2nd person plural pronoun (vosotros) is shortened to "vos" in some countries.
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