Subj : Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
To : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 07:46 pm
-=> Nightfox wrote to Moondog <=-
Ni> Re: Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
Ni> By: Moondog to Gamgee on Tue Apr 25 2023 11:14 am
> Ni>> I don't know how "y'all" and "ya'll" would be pronounced
> Ni>> differently..?
> The first is basically one syllable, and the second is (sort of)
> two. ;-)
Mo> Y'all is well accepted. "Your people" is taken in a derogatory manner.
Ni> I'm not sure how that relates to the past posts in this thread..
It doesn't. I asked him the same thing. Kinda strange how things jump
all over the map.
Ni> And I've never heard anyone say "your people" in place of
Ni> "y'all".
Neither have I.
Ni> And I don't think "y'all" is really synonymous with
Ni> "your people".. Most often, I hear it in the context of
Ni> something like "Dinner's ready, y'all", where "your people"
Ni> wouldn't really work in that kind of sentence.
100%.
... I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar.
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