Picture this: you're reading a story and suddenly realize it's talking directly to you. Not at you, but to you. You're making ...

While it makes sense that having a conversation with someone else about whatever is bothering you would necessarily incorporate the first suggestion — using second-person pronouns and related ...

Normal languages have separate singular and plural second-person pronouns, period. And when a language breaks, its speakers have a way of fixing it.

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. By John McWhorter. ... “You” was once plural, but with the decline of “thou”, once the second-person singular, ...