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What's the difference between second person singular and plural? I thought they were both "you"?

I find I tend to slip between first person singular and plural depending on what I'm doing. In particular, I always comment my code in first person plural because it's a conversation I'm having with whoever reads the code.



> What's the difference between second person singular and plural? I thought they were both "you"?

Didn't think about it while writing that comment, but my main language is Hebrew, which makes this distinction in second person.


I did wonder if it'd be something like that. I learned something new today! :)




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