She who is out of place during the attack misses the target. Poor Shiranui.

As someone who isn't rolling with destroyers in ships, I think I can now get the lip biting anguish of someone on a Kagero missing all their salvos during a torpedo run now, Shiranui.

Then on next strip is admiral coming back to dorm cuz he forgot something~

y'all is plural btw

Gollgagh said:

y'all is plural btw

Ah, it can also be a singular, especially when showing familiarity. While it is a point of contention, usage patterns definitely show its usage as the singular and plural (and the larger plural, all y'all).

Though certainly, it is primarily used in the plural.

Paracite said:

Ah, it can also be a singular, especially when showing familiarity.

Meanwhile, "they" is apparently becoming singular. Because why should words have meanings? Oh, 21st century, you so silly.

zgryphon said:

Meanwhile, "they" is apparently becoming singular. Because why should words have meanings? Oh, 21st century, you so silly.

To be fair, Shakespeare did it too. And so did Chaucer.

zgryphon said:

Meanwhile, "they" is apparently becoming singular. Because why should words have meanings? Oh, 21st century, you so silly.

Long before the use of generic he was condemned as sexist, the pronouns they, their, and them were used in educated speech and in all but the most formal writing to refer to indefinite pronouns and to singular nouns of general personal reference, probably because such nouns are often not felt to be exclusively singular.

The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified sex has been used since at least the 16th century.

I can already see where this goes if we proceed further but please, singular they is far from a modern thing.

Wow, brings me back memories when my father's dictionary had plural "you" as "vosotros" replacing "ustedes".

rom_collector said:

Wow, brings me back memories when my father's dictionary had plural "you" as "vosotros" replacing "ustedes".

"Ustedes" is more used in Latin America, while "Vosotros" is more used in Spain.
From a Spaniard's perspective (like myself) "Usted"/"Ustedes" is pretty much the Spanish equivalent of "Thou" (old fashioned word that you would rarely use in everyday life).

Both words are correct, but depending on which country/region you are (or which Spanish dialect the dictionary editors chose) the pronoun you'll use for the second-person plural will vary.

.P.S.: Kind of off topic on my behalf (for which I apologize), but it caught my attention.