We could borrow from another language. Hell, English has quite the reputation for borrowing from other languages. Most of our scientific terms have Latin or Greek roots, and a lot of words are borrowings from French (which is related to Latin, anyway).
My German is a bit rusty, so feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong, but maybe we could borrow their pronoun for addressing a group, as in "Seid Ihr verruct?" for "Are you mad?".
A colloquial borrowing from German already in use on the Internet is using "-en" as the plural ending for "box" when referring to computing devices. Chances are most users here have seen other posters use "Xboxen" as the plural of the name of Microsoft's games console.
Twilight_guy said:
Revenge Revisited said:
Grr, whenever someone says "y'all" it makes me want to punch them. I just say "you guys" when addressing a group.
What its a group of girls? What if its a mixed group and you want to address both genders? I would say "you people" is a more neutral alternative except for the negative connotation of that phrase that makes it undesirable too. It's actually quiet confusing.
I use "you lot" for that purpose. I'm not British, I'm Australian, although I have seen a fair bit of British TV. Yes, that did include Doctor Who when I was a kid.
