Wordie: Y'all: Comments

Comment by pterodactyl, 7 months ago

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:54:38 +0000

Here's a map that shows just how Southern this word is.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:58:58 +0000

*worried about sionnach trailing off incoherently*

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:47:44 +0000

assmarmot's got my vote, dadgumit. Not that I'm biased in any way. But it's got such range and versatility, not to mention that satisfying mouthfeel that comes from just the right melange of plosives and fricatives (clearly I'm winging it here - I wouldn't know a fricative from a glottal stop).

What's the matter? Assmarmot got your tongue?

Autem diver came from a long line of assmarmots, so his appearance on the docket, charged with being a kirkbuzzer, came as no great surprise to Constable Crittens, nor to any of his krafty kittens.

Your behavior is completely unacceptable, sir! Rubbing up against people in the subway
in a brazen display of crass frottage
is the kind of assmarmottage
Which should only be conducted in a glass cottage...

*Trails off incoherently*

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:47:05 +0000

Vote early and often!

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Ummm... "all y'all" is the plural for "y'all." *confused*

I think assmarmot should be the word of the year. Yes, I know it's only January.

Comment by Asativum, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:05:46 +0000

I had a Texan tell me with a straight face once that all y'all was the plural for y'all.

But sionnach, assmarmot?

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:51:40 +0000

I like all y'all and its possessive form all y'all's myself. Though I can see it might not work for the likes of Cormac McCarthy, given his idiosyncratic (and stingy) way with apostrophes.

Oh, what the hell, I'll just get this off my chest.

HEY: McCarthy. What the freak is your freaking deal with apostrophes, and with punctuation generally? It's not that hard, douchebag! It makes you seem like a pretentious assmarmot. But maybe you don't care.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:55:36 +0000

Well jeez, mafunzalo, you've barely met us and already we're driving you....

Oh.

Comment by mafunzalo, 10 months ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:06 +0000

Y'all drives me nuts! What's wrong with having "you" represent both singular and plural usages? Certainly there are others! Who can list them?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:00:58 +0000

Arby, points off for starting this discussion again! ;->

Comment by arby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:36:08 +0000

I like y'all because we no longer have thou or ye or whichever one was the plural "you" form in English, so I figure it's actually serving a useful purpose and therefore cut it a break for being technically incorrect.

Also, it amuses me personally to say it because I am like the epitome of a Yankee but my entire family's from the South, so I know just how transgressive I am being.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:28:19 +0000

Important to note that "y'all" is not used ONLY for groups of people. It can be used as a "folksy" (I hate that word) counterpart to the more formal "you" in some other languages (e.g. French, German). "Y'all are just a jerk, that's all."

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:31:34 +0000

Y'ins are weird. ;-)

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:04:31 +0000

Yes, but "Is this for y'all?" defeats the whole point of saving half a second.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:12:37 +0000

It only took 32 days, but I finally got some responses.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:29:34 +0000

This word is one of my guilty pleasures. I'm an enormous stickler when it comes to spelling and grammar and punctuation... but I figure if I'm even using y'all I've already broken the rules. So at that point, who even cares about spelling and punctuation and grammar? It all goes out the window. I use y'all and all its illegal variants, and I don't care. I'm the James Dean of proper English.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:21:53 +0000

Oh yeah, my (Yankee) family mocks me for saying "y'all" all the time, but really I live in the South, I have no choice. I'll take more guff for saying "you guys" or "youse" than I would for saying "y'all."

I like these:
y'all
all y'all's OR
y'all's's (pronounced "yallses")
y'all'll (a.k.a. y'all are gunna)
y'all've
y'all're
y'all'r'n't (as in "y'all'r'n't gunna leave now, are y'all?" I'd say "y'all aren't" except that isn't how y'all pronounce it)

I can't think of any more right now, my brain is tired. Y'all'll go on without me anyways.

P.S. trivet? I worry about apostrophes all the time. It's my job. :-) No, really, it is.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:17:39 +0000

Who worries about apostrophes when using y'all? I'd go with y'all's and all y'all's, myself. There's also the option of saying "Is this for y'all?" instead of "Is this y'all's?"

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:07:27 +0000

I always use "y'all". There was some commotion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta b/c somebody held up a sign spelled ya'll. You just don't *do* that in the South. Personally, I have always wondered about the possessive. Is it y’all’s and all y'alls'?

Wordie: Y'all: Comments

Comment by pterodactyl, 7 months ago

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