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

[Melanie Clarke]

Anyone from Chicago want to run a "yous guys" gangsta slang thread?

Or Spanish speakers can compare their use of informal "tu" and formal
"usted" with the Old English use of their informal "you" and formal "thou"
usages.  So
informal:    tu = you
formal:  usted = thou
Castillian Spanish has the Vosotros = y'all...

We Americans (as in north and south) got rid of the Vosotros and Thou!  I'll
defer to Ernie here...

We could do this all day!

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Shawn Hudson <shizaquawn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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