I’ve never been quite clear on that. Does that mean you can use “y’all” when addressing a single person? If so, it’s no improvement at all in terms of clarity over just plain “you”. I don’t know, off hand, if any language has a pronoun or word ending (for agultinative languages like Hungarian) than distinguishes between addressing a single person and a group.
Well, I just checked with my Hungarian co-worker and, yes, there is a clear difference between addressing a single person and a group.
Well, I'm a transplant from CA, but I've never heard "y'all" used to address an individual. I have, however, heard "all y'all" when addressing a large crowd.
In Spanish, "you" (singular) is "tu" (informal) or "usted" (formal) and "you" (plural) is "ustedes."
And the winner for most quotes and parens in an FR post....the envelope please....