The only thing missing from this ramble was some fist-shaking exhortation to ‘get off my lawn.’ I’m a dedicated skeptic, but sheesh.

That’s because the word “you” can be either singular or plural, and if you want to speak to a group of people, you want to be clear that you are addressing the group and not a singular individual. So the word “you” gets modified by these other words like “all” or “guys.” Consider it a minor defect of the English language that gets addressed in the vernacular in a not very elegant way.

The plural of “you guys” is “you guyses”. You’ll also hear “your guys’s” as in “How’s your guys’s food?”

The simple word “you” or “your” is sufficient.

Tell me about it. For a little while I went out of my way to use it correctly, and all it ever did was confuse people and derail whatever discussion I was in.

I’ll just note, when I asked my 81 year old father how he was feeling, he said,”I’m old. I ache. I can’t pee and a good bowel movement is highly unusual. How the heck do you THINK I feel?”

Taking that into account, complaintitudessness would seem to be an understandable attribute of the aged.
Now, get those cranky kids off my old lawn,,,

Gary 7