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Y'all gives way to my favorite word, Y'all'd've (You all would have). It it fun to say and wraps up so many grammatical concepts into a neat package. Example us
by yCombLinks 2y ago
Y'all gives way to my favorite word, Y'all'd've (You all would have). It it fun to say and wraps up so many grammatical concepts into a neat package. Example usage "It's too bad Y'all didn't come to the party, Y'all'd've had fun"
- whycome 2y agoI believe for me that’s Y’all’da - you all woulda.
- banannaise 2y ago"woulda" is just rewriting "would've" to match the speech pattern.
- binarymax 2y agoKeep working on this we’re getting really close to an American yodel.
- fat_cantor 2y agoThe functional equivalent of yodeling is 'hollerin', which old timers in the mountains used to do every morning
- joshdavham 2y agoI use something similar with y’all’re (= you all are).
- pavel_lishin 2y agoSome people complain about the weird contractions that English can construct, but at some point, you just have to accept that that's the kind of language it's.
- schindlabua 2y agoIt's basically what agglutinative languages do, no? y'all'd've: y=second person, all=plural, d=subjunctive, ve=posessive Fun to see stuff like this pop up where it usually doesn't.
- fat_cantor 2y agoNever heard anyone pronounce the v in that one, it's always Y'all'd'a, as distinguished from y'all'odda (you all ought to). Similarly we have y'ontu? (do you want to?). Jeff Foxworthy has a bunch of these examples
- yCombLinks 2y agoI'm a very formal hick
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- seandoe 2y agoWidjadidja?
- dylan604 2y agoNot to leave out Younta? (you want to?). I've never seen anyone try to punctuate that one though