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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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Is There a Plural You in English?

English has lost the plural you form. Now basically, like almost any English dialect you find is trying to create a plural you out of something because it's so that for some reason, that's important to us. We definitely have like, for place would that be like, like museum, but that's even could be a thing, right? Like an individual, like building, you know, or a city. Okay. Well, yeah, in English would be weird if I said like, I went over to the Boston's or the art, right? But then for abstract entities in English, he came to know all the happiness of being a parent.

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