[pct-l] Trail names/fox noise

[Scott Williams]

And to continue this seemingly non PCT oriented string, (this all began as a
joke on trail last year in the High Sierra, and now all y'all are being
subjected to it) I try to rebel against any superimposed Latin constructs on
our lovely Germanic tongue.  Just because 60 percent of the lexicon is from
the French, and therefor of Latin derivation, doesn't mean we have to absorb
the structure, in spite of what our grammar teachers told us.  And since my
long suffering wife is from NY City, I'd rather hear "y'all" any day over
"yous guys," which is just too close to home.

Great stuff TrailHacker.  I guess the closest this kind of fun comes to the
trail, is that it reminds me of the goofy fun we all had out there.  Without
naming names, it's the kind of camaraderie of people whose names start with
Switchback and JMT Rheinhold, that made the trail so special.  'Course in
that case, many of you may say to hell with that trail.

Happy New Year to All Y'all,

Shroomer

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> "When your feet hurt, yous can't think straight"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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