Actually, it’s non-standard grammar as opposed to bad grammar. Conceptually it makes sense that speakers of modern English are trying to refill the void left behind when English lost the number distinction in second person pronouns.
You will hear youse in Australia, but more commonly you’ll hear compounds like ‘you-lot’, 'you-guys’, or (northern variation) ‘you-mob’.
This was also the way some kids talked back in my youth in NJ, only it was often "youse guys" - but I attributed that to our proximity to the speech patterns of NYC.
Actually, it’s non-standard grammar as opposed to bad grammar. Conceptually it makes sense that speakers of modern English are trying to refill the void left behind when English lost the number distinction in second person pronouns.
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This was also the way some kids talked back in my youth in NJ, only it was often "youse guys" - but I attributed that to our proximity to the speech patterns of NYC.
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