(August 3, 2016 at 4:02 pm)Losty Wrote: I live in South Georgia now so y'all is normal. You guys isn't too badly laughed at. Having moved from place to place, I have a hard time understanding why people make fun of people for speaking a different dialect. Still I try to remind myself (and other people) that you is plural so you don't really need to say you guys or y'all or youins or anything like that, just "you" is fine.
In portuguese and any other latin-derived language, the plural you is a different word, which makes it less ambiguous.
Singular: tu
Plural: vós (although, it is more common to find people using "vocês" which is then coupled with the third person plural of the verb. Vós has become deprecated to old or formal style)