When I moved to Louisiana "ya'll" was jolting to my ears. In the 7th grade, I recall the moment as if it were yesterday. New school, kids conversing in circle. Ya'll, Ya'll, Ya'll, Ya'll all around, and I thought, go for it dude, you must try harder to fit in, say ya'll and see if they notice. So I did. And nobody looked. Nobody said, "Hey, stop being weird." The Earth didn't go, eeeeeerk, slam brakes and stop. Nobody even noticed.
Then, later in Colorado I said to myself, "You must try harder to fit in. Drop your 'ly' adverbial suffix here and there and see if the Earth stops." And I said, "We got dressed up for the wedding real proper." Some such, and nobody noticed or corrected.
But then a year later among a group of deaf I said the word "world" rotating my "Ws" toward my body instead of away from my body and the similar circle of friends cracked up laughing hysterically literally falling about and to this day I do not know why that was so funny to them that the Earth stopped.
But I was thinking about this as I was leaving. Right under the door jamb whilst checking to make sure the door is locked, I thought, "you know, Sixty Grit is right." For the reasons you state.
But I don't care, la la la, it's fucked up word anyway.
But it probably should be designated properly nonetheless, Mr. Apostrophe Policeman. You are right.
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Dude, please correct that typo - "ya'll" makes my skin "cr'all".
"Y'all" - ahh, like butter..
Is Holder on the case?
That is hilarious
Thanks.
Something funny was definitely needed this morning.
What happens in NY, after dark, if you don't tip enough.
When I moved to Louisiana "ya'll" was jolting to my ears. In the 7th grade, I recall the moment as if it were yesterday. New school, kids conversing in circle. Ya'll, Ya'll, Ya'll, Ya'll all around, and I thought, go for it dude, you must try harder to fit in, say ya'll and see if they notice. So I did. And nobody looked. Nobody said, "Hey, stop being weird." The Earth didn't go, eeeeeerk, slam brakes and stop. Nobody even noticed.
Then, later in Colorado I said to myself, "You must try harder to fit in. Drop your 'ly' adverbial suffix here and there and see if the Earth stops." And I said, "We got dressed up for the wedding real proper." Some such, and nobody noticed or corrected.
But then a year later among a group of deaf I said the word "world" rotating my "Ws" toward my body instead of away from my body and the similar circle of friends cracked up laughing hysterically literally falling about and to this day I do not know why that was so funny to them that the Earth stopped.
Okay, let me address this once again - a contraction is a word that uses an apostrophe to replace one or more letters.
The words we start with are "you all". Replace the "ou" with an "'" and you end up with "y'all".
It would be uncouth and Y*nkee-like to start with "ya". Maybe even Canadian, forsooth!
Personally, Sixty, I think the apostrophe is quite pretentious and hoity-toity. The correct form is "yall".
Being pretentious and hoity-toity myself, I give in to convention and use the mark.
Aint that pitiful.
I do not disagree. We could all emulate space aliens and Vulcans and the like and never use contractions.
Or contraptions.
And do not even get me started on ‘ - those Hawaiians have a different punctuation mark for everything!
I grow fatigued and shall now retire to the Lāna‘i.
Maybe I am a Yankee. And I am definitely uncouth.
But I was thinking about this as I was leaving. Right under the door jamb whilst checking to make sure the door is locked, I thought, "you know, Sixty Grit is right." For the reasons you state.
But I don't care, la la la, it's fucked up word anyway.
But it probably should be designated properly nonetheless, Mr. Apostrophe Policeman. You are right.
Thanks, and you are right as well - it is not a good word. It is one that I eschew. Eschew your words thoroughly, I always say.
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