Mark
1st October 2013, 12:58
(http://iamid.co.uk/blog/)
"Who “you” are, is no longer the question. The question is, who “IS” you. The word “you”
gets more people into trouble than any other word currently utilized within our legal and
financial systems.
It is virtually impossible to fully explain the proper grammatical usage of the word “you”,
insofar as proper English is concerned.
Wikipedia: You (stressed /ˈjuː/; unstressed /jə/) is the second-person personal pronoun in
Modern English. Ye was the original nominative form; the oblique/objective form is you
(functioning originally as both accusative and dative), and the possessive is your or
yours.
YourDictionary.com: you (yo̅ ̵o̅)
pronoun pl. you
1. the person to whom one is speaking or writing: personal pronoun in the second
person (sing. & pl.): you is the nominative and objective form (sing. & pl.), yours the
possessive (sing. & pl.), and yourself (sing.) and yourselves (pl.) the reflexive and
intensive; your is the possessive pronominal adjective
2. any person: equivalent in sense to indefinite one: you can never be sure!
Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in
addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb. (No confusion here!)
Loosely, the word “you” is a pronoun, that cannot be properly grammatically used
according to English language rules. When spoken, “you” is commonly heard by
everyone present, as if it were being addressed to each of them, individually, in a singular
sense. We erroneously hear a singular inclination of the properly plural expression, as in
one speaking to a group and saying; “I’m happy to share this with you.”
Properly, “you” is indeed “plural”, yet the word “you” is often spoken as if it were in
reference to a singular man or woman. In such instances, the word “you” induces a
natural inclination for everyone in an audience to hear it as being addressed singularly to
a specific individual within that audience, particularly if the word “you” follows an
antecedent noun; as in one speaking to that same group, and saying; “Yes George, I’m
happy to share this with you.”
In “law”, this word “you”, is properly utilized in all ordinary legal discourse when
addressing the singular mind (or the single party with volition) within the plural-natureconstruct
of a PERSON. The PERSON being comprised of a man that answers for, or is
liable for that PERSON, and the corporate entity that IS that PERSON. In this sense,
addressing a PERSON, as “you”, is actually as close to a proper use of the word “you”,
as anyone could imagine.
Thus the personal pronoun “you”, being both singular and plural, properly addresses the
essential plural nature of the single PERSON entity. The key to benefiting from this, is to
grasp who the correct (plural) components are within that single PERSON entity.
"Who “you” are, is no longer the question. The question is, who “IS” you. The word “you”
gets more people into trouble than any other word currently utilized within our legal and
financial systems.
It is virtually impossible to fully explain the proper grammatical usage of the word “you”,
insofar as proper English is concerned.
Wikipedia: You (stressed /ˈjuː/; unstressed /jə/) is the second-person personal pronoun in
Modern English. Ye was the original nominative form; the oblique/objective form is you
(functioning originally as both accusative and dative), and the possessive is your or
yours.
YourDictionary.com: you (yo̅ ̵o̅)
pronoun pl. you
1. the person to whom one is speaking or writing: personal pronoun in the second
person (sing. & pl.): you is the nominative and objective form (sing. & pl.), yours the
possessive (sing. & pl.), and yourself (sing.) and yourselves (pl.) the reflexive and
intensive; your is the possessive pronominal adjective
2. any person: equivalent in sense to indefinite one: you can never be sure!
Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in
addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb. (No confusion here!)
Loosely, the word “you” is a pronoun, that cannot be properly grammatically used
according to English language rules. When spoken, “you” is commonly heard by
everyone present, as if it were being addressed to each of them, individually, in a singular
sense. We erroneously hear a singular inclination of the properly plural expression, as in
one speaking to a group and saying; “I’m happy to share this with you.”
Properly, “you” is indeed “plural”, yet the word “you” is often spoken as if it were in
reference to a singular man or woman. In such instances, the word “you” induces a
natural inclination for everyone in an audience to hear it as being addressed singularly to
a specific individual within that audience, particularly if the word “you” follows an
antecedent noun; as in one speaking to that same group, and saying; “Yes George, I’m
happy to share this with you.”
In “law”, this word “you”, is properly utilized in all ordinary legal discourse when
addressing the singular mind (or the single party with volition) within the plural-natureconstruct
of a PERSON. The PERSON being comprised of a man that answers for, or is
liable for that PERSON, and the corporate entity that IS that PERSON. In this sense,
addressing a PERSON, as “you”, is actually as close to a proper use of the word “you”,
as anyone could imagine.
Thus the personal pronoun “you”, being both singular and plural, properly addresses the
essential plural nature of the single PERSON entity. The key to benefiting from this, is to
grasp who the correct (plural) components are within that single PERSON entity.