Do English speakers sometimes confuse you 1st person with you 2nd person?

@clousems said in #8:
> I also used to live in the Pittsburgh area, where they are famous for using "yinz" for the plural you.
But I thought Americans preferred to speak English?
So why are yinz making up words?

There's also "Thou", "Thee", "Thouself", "Theeself" to talk about singular you.

every language is confusing at times, more so if it is written and not talked.

@NaturalBornTraveller said in #11:
> But I thought Americans preferred to speak English?
> So why are yinz making up words?
If you think we're bad, you should go to England!
But if you need a handy reference for Pittsburghese, the internet provides: http://www.pittsburghese.com/glossary.ep.html

@WassimBerbar said in #12:
> There's also "Thou", "Thee", "Thouself", "Theeself" to talk about singular you.
Thouself is not a word in Modern English, while the others are archaic, dating back to a time before all of this was an issue.

@clousems said in #14:
> Thouself is not a word in Modern English, while the others are archaic, dating back to a time before all of this was an issue.
Apologies, I'm not from English nor American origins. I thought you could add "self" to any pronoun to make it reflexive.

Not at all, after all beluga is american.

#15,

It’s thyself. (Cf. myself.) Thy is to my as thine is to mine, thee is to me (and ye and we), and thou is to you. (Of course, with the right accent, you might hear “meself” sometimes.) ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄

Really, everything would parse better if we still used these words. Alas, there’s a trend in the opposite direction: to remove even more specificity, e.g. by singularizing they and them. -_-

@clousems said in #2:
> Where I'm from, "you" by itself refers to an individual. The phrase you used would be referring to a single person (even though he may be part of a group).
> If we address a group, we tend to employ the infamous "y'all" contraction.

But do y'all use "y'all" as singular too? By "y'all" I mean y'all in particular, of course.

Y'all is never singular (nor is yinz). They are contractions of "you all" and "you ones", respectively.

what kind of english does jar jar binks say? "meesa your humble servant"