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4th person pronoun? (startrek.website)
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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 70 points 11 months ago

it's definitely 2nd person collective in its original usage and outside of its original usage it's not a pronoun because it doesn't replace a noun.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

I don't think it's a pronoun at all. It's a collective noun, and a term of address.

"Ladies and Gentlemen" is also not a pronoun.

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