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<blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8039412" data-attributes="member: 6563">This is a complete tangent and wholly unrelated to any point that Haldrik was making or to alignments in general, but seeing Haldrik's choice to designate the plural &quot;you&quot; just triggered me to go into a flight of fancy as a logophile. In the English language, there are many informal, usually regional ways to designate the plural you. Aside from Haldrik's choice &quot;you ones&quot;, there is also &quot;yous ones&quot;, &quot;you guys&quot;, &quot;you all&quot;, &quot;you lot&quot;, and &quot;you mob&quot;. Then there are the contractions and otherwise shortened forms. Most notorious is the American Southern &quot;y'all&quot; (contracted from &quot;you all&quot; and sometimes double pluraled as &quot;all y'all&quot;), but some others are &quot;yous&quot; or &quot;youse&quot; (or even &quot;youse guys&quot;), &quot;you-uns&quot; (shortened from &quot;you ones&quot;), &quot;yunz&quot; (contracted from &quot;you-uns&quot;), &quot;yinz&quot; (an variant of &quot;yunz&quot;), &quot;ye&quot; (also &quot;yee&quot;, &quot;yees&quot;, and &quot;yiz&quot;). There may be others (there always are), but I'm not familiar with them.So, that was my Ted Talk, now youse guys can go back to debating whether or not alignment should be featured in future editions of D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azzy, post: 8039412, member: 6563"] This is a complete tangent and wholly unrelated to any point that Haldrik was making or to alignments in general, but seeing Haldrik's choice to designate the plural "you" just triggered me to go into a flight of fancy as a logophile. In the English language, there are many informal, usually regional ways to designate the plural you. Aside from Haldrik's choice "you ones", there is also "yous ones", "you guys", "you all", "you lot", and "you mob". Then there are the contractions and otherwise shortened forms. Most notorious is the American Southern "y'all" (contracted from "you all" and sometimes double pluraled as "all y'all"), but some others are "yous" or "youse" (or even "youse guys"), "you-uns" (shortened from "you ones"), "yunz" (contracted from "you-uns"), "yinz" (an variant of "yunz"), "ye" (also "yee", "yees", and "yiz"). There may be others (there always are), but I'm not familiar with them. So, that was my Ted Talk, now youse guys can go back to debating whether or not alignment should be featured in future editions of D&D. [/QUOTE]

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