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

[Shawn Hudson]

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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