[pct-l] Trail names/fox noise

[abiegen at cox.net]

Shroomer wrote:

>You may be "gin-you-wine" (sounds like something out of the Napa Valley up
>here,) but y'all are pretty smart too.  See, it works in the singular just
>fine.  I worked with a lot of Southerners up here when I was a youth
>counselor, and y'all was often directed at one kid as in, "y'all turn that
>noise down!"  This is too fun to let die.

Y'all is a work around for the fact that English doesn't have a plural second-person pronoun like all good Latin based languages.  For all of the all "Gin-you-whiners" out there, there is no excuse for pluralizing a plural other than trying to irritate northerners. ;-} seriously though, I understand that "all y'all" is meant to be a further clarification on "y'all" to show that you really mean "all of you" because "y'all" is so over used even when there is no all to the "y'all." What a mess. We should all go back to the more precise Latin.

When I went to university in New York I lived in an apartment with my girlfriend Diana, her friend Diane and two other students, Denice and Doreen. Yes, I was the only cock in "D" hen house. 

Our Mafia landlord couldn't remember all the D names and just called us all, "Yous Dianes." As in, "If the roof is leaking, it's too wet to get up there, so yous Dianes call me when the rain stops." Or, "I can't tell where the leak is coming from when it's not raining, so yous Dianes call me when it's raining." True story. 

So I prefer "yous" over "y'all" since I'm used to it. ;-}

TrailHacker

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