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I am firmly on the side of "y'all".
by russelluresti 13y ago
I am firmly on the side of "y'all".
- Zikes 13y agoOne of my foreign friends was teasing me about how English doesn't have a word for "a group of people" whereas many other major languages apparently do, and I replied "sure we do, it's y'all".
- nosecreek 13y agoI'm in Canada where y'all doesn't get used much, but when I was learning Greek we used y'all as the English plural "you".
- Zikes 13y agoSounds like validation to me.
- vacri 13y agoI think you mean 'for addressing a group of people'. We have plenty of words for groups of people. And we have ways of addressing them, they just take more than one word: "you -foo-". It's like the infinitive in English is two words, (to -foo-) but in most other euro languages it's only one.
- LargeWu 13y agoMy wife spent about half a year in North Carolina for work, where "y'all" seemed to translate to the singular "you", while "all y'alls" was used to refer to "you" plural.
- tzs 13y agoI have used y'all for as long as I can remember (although not exclusively...it is mixed in with "you guys", "you people", and others according to whichever sounds best in that particular sentence), even though the farthest I was ever away from the West Coast for my first 47 years was just outside Yosemite in California, and I knew nobody who was from the South or spoke with any obvious Southern influence. I think I must have heard it on TV and picked it up. Anyone else here use it despite no Southern connection among friends or family?
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