Southern grammar hammer
Aug. 24th, 2006 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonIn response to an email going around about Southern (er, American Southern) slang:
"Y'all" is always plural: it is a contraction of "you all" and refers to "you all" or "all of you". "All y'all" is an emphasis of "y'all": When you visit your mom and dad, you ask, "How've y'all been doing?" When you go to the family reunion, you say "It's been forever since I saw all y'all!"
The singular of "y'all" is "you", just as it is in other English dialects.
Also, in case you missed my prior ponderings on this subject:
Naked = not wearing any clothes.
Nekkid = not wearing any clothes, and up to somethin' ;)
The two are often confused, but the differing inflection helps remove some of the ambiguity.
"Y'all" is always plural: it is a contraction of "you all" and refers to "you all" or "all of you". "All y'all" is an emphasis of "y'all": When you visit your mom and dad, you ask, "How've y'all been doing?" When you go to the family reunion, you say "It's been forever since I saw all y'all!"
The singular of "y'all" is "you", just as it is in other English dialects.
Also, in case you missed my prior ponderings on this subject:
Naked = not wearing any clothes.
Nekkid = not wearing any clothes, and up to somethin' ;)
The two are often confused, but the differing inflection helps remove some of the ambiguity.
