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To: metmom

“BTW, the you’all is a great way of making the distinction of *you*. I will likely be absconding with it, and not in mockery of you either, lest you think that when I use it.”

So you think the fact that I live in the South is somehow a mockery?

I have to apologize because that’s a typo. That should have been all y’all instead of the singular y’all.

If you check back, I use all y’all in other posts.

You can use it. It don’t own the copyright.


1,610 posted on 01/21/2011 1:21:33 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR

*sigh*.

No. I had no idea where you lived. I never read anywhere that you may have posted it and I can’t hear accents on the screen.

Since the RF guidelines prevent the making it personal and one of the most annoying (to me) things about English is the personal pronoun of *you* in that you can’t distinguish between *you* plural, and *you* singular, I thought you were doing that to make the distinction so that nobody could complain that you (sing.) were making it personal.

I think it’s a great idea to use *you’all* or *y’all* to prevent confusion.


1,613 posted on 01/21/2011 5:47:18 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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