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:: No, in at least spoken English I'd repeat "your father". Let me make it an exclamation, that might be more clear. But you're spot on about 2nd person plural. My bad. --[[Usor:Robert.Baruch|Robert.Baruch]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Robert.Baruch|disputatio]]) 19:00, 29 Decembris 2013 (UTC)
::::The most natural pattern over here is "You saw your father? My father and I also saw him." (The intonational peak is on the word ''also.'') Except perhaps for classroom purposes, a repetition of "your father" in English seems forced. ¶ Also, the traditional comparative of ''clear'' is ''clearer.'' [[Usor:IacobusAmor|IacobusAmor]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:IacobusAmor|disputatio]]) 14:26, 2 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)
::::::Oh, that's interesting. My dialect almost always refuses to add -er to single-syllable adjectives that end in /r/. So ''more bare, more dear, more sore''. The sole exception I can think of is ''nearer'' (and far -> farther but that's because *farer). --[[Usor:Robert.Baruch|Robert.Baruch]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Robert.Baruch|disputatio]]) 05:39, 4 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)
:::::As happens sometimes, "over there" and "over here" agree 95%: we disagree with Robert, who is (I think) somewhere in between :) [I wrote "100%", but then it struck me that when the sentence is a straight question the normal verb form, "over here", would be "Did you see ...?", not "You saw ...?"] <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 16:18, 2 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)
::::::After thinking about it, I think I agree. --[[Usor:Robert.Baruch|Robert.Baruch]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Robert.Baruch|disputatio]]) 05:20, 4 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)
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