Agree.
“Ya’ll” is linguistically necessary in English since the word “ye” was deprecated.
A common alternative to remove ambiguity between singular and plural “you” in some parts of the US is “you guys”.
“Ya’ll” is linguistically necessary in English since the word “ye” was deprecated.
A common alternative to remove ambiguity between singular and plural “you” in some parts of the US is “you guys”.
Ye is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". [0]
The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you. [1]
We deprecated ye and thou, but it’s the latter that “requires” y’all, because only thou (relative to us still having you) distinguishes the number of people.
Edit: put another way, “thou/thee is the one with number” meant that reintroducing them would create a number distinction.