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 Post subject: Unneecssary disdain
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:37 pm 
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The use of (sic) in this story about a teen's death seems, whether the site's editors intended it or not, to convey a value judgement about the use of non-standaed Australian English.<p>Macquarie dictionary calls it this way: youse pronoun (personal) second person, subjective and objective Colloquial (in non-standard use) 1. plural form of you: youse are all mad : *Frost, the publican, desperately afraid of losing good customers, said to the four of us Englishmen: `Can one of youse blokes play the piano?' The bush was full of pubs with pianos with no one able to play them. - HAROLD LEWIS, 1973 2. singular form of you: youse was a good cook. Also , yous
Usage: English you does not distinguish singular from plural. The form youse does provide a plural, contrasting with singular you, but there is strong resistance to it, in spoken as well as written usage, and it remains non-standard.
<p>[ July 21, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]</p>


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