A bit of a classic young-people-these-days rant, going off on a growing variety of
spleen-venting tangents as it proceeds...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/english-for-yourself.html
...but I had been wondering about the increased use of 'yourself' - to my mind a
reaction to the absence of a tu/vous distinction in (Standard) English.
Any actual research out there about this?
Your(self)s,
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
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Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
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