Anyone who really wants to dig into this can lose the rest of their day here at Language Log, a terrific source for those of us professionally or otherwise obsessed with written and spoken language:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005298.html (includes awesome sample usage) And here (for a The Wire reference) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005320.html The second shows that there is a reference to urban use at least 5 five years ago. ph -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Zaki Warfel Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:25 AM To: W Evans Cc: IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Yo gender-neutral singular pronoun has arrivedat last! > Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins > University, and her student, Margaret Troyer, have discovered that > school children in Baltimore are *using the slang word yo as a > gender-neutral singular pronoun*. I'm curious what part of Baltimore this was and the ethnic and social class make up of the class(es) they noticed this in. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
