[pct-l] Nail in the coffin, y'all ...

[Ernie Castillo]

I have to weigh in here. Perhaps this ramble will put an end to this discussion thread.
 
Under the guise of making sure you can communicate with any illegal aliens you may encounter while leaving Campo, let me offer some Spanish language trivia.
 
The Spanish language distinguishes between singular you and plural you. 
Usted is singular you.
Ustedes is plural you.
 
Let me offer a scenario.
 
Raul is trying to enter the United States illegally and comes across a solo PCT thru-hiker who shares his plans to hike to Canada. Says Raul: Usted está loco. (translation: "You are crazy.")
 
Raul continues on and meets a group of PCT thru-hikers who share their collective plan to hike to Canada. Says Raul: Todos ustedes están locos. (translation: "You are all crazy.")
 
Ernie Castillo
PCT Class of 1980, and an East Los Angeles native who looks Spanish but really is a coconut (translation: brown on the outside, white on the inside) but used it to his advantage while traversing an Indian reservation near Anza

 
> From: shizaquawn at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:06:39 +0900
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Nail in the coffin, y'all ...
> 
> I know this thread has gone on too far, but I can't resist. I'm from the
> South. Lived there a majority of my life, save a couple excursions to
> Kentucky, Oregon, and now Korea. "All y'all" is ONLY used by backwoods
> retards. If you're from the South and you hear it, you automatically can
> conclude that there's a severe shortage of teeth in the area, either from
> meth or from backyard "wrasslin'." This might be offensive, but only because
> it's true. Some Southerners might prefer the "ignore it and it will go away"
> method, but not I.
> 
> Thanks for bringing up the absence of a 2nd person plural, too. My old Latin
> professor often stated this in his case as for why "y'all" was a legitimate
> part of the language.
> 
> Now back to your regularly-scheduled PCT programming ...
> 
> - Voodoo
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> >
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