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cordeliasub -> RE: Shit Southern women say (11/15/2012 10:56:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aswad
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Y'all: the plural of you (educated Southerners know that technically you is plural but we still use y'all)
Actually, the explicit plural, generally inclusive. All y'all is explicitly inclusive, generally emphatically inclusive.
I've adopted it myself, but I doubt I would've if the original singular was still around.
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ORIGINAL: cordeliasub
Y'all wanna set on the porch a spell and let me fix ya a cold drank? Looks like it's comin' up a cloud.
Underline mine.
Is that a common feature in Southern speech?
Just curious, cause we have that in my native dialect of Norwegian, too. No difference between sit/set, lie/lay and so forth. My teacher in high school, from another part of the country, related being thoroughly confused the first time someone said he was gonna go lie in the fireplace while it was still lit ("lay in the fireplace" is idiomatic for "lay some wood in the fireplace"). Cause, he also tried to "correct" it, so I had to lecture him on prescriptive vs descriptive linguistics.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
It is supposed to be "sit," but it is usually pronounced "set." There is also the phenomenon of emphasizing the first syllable even if it sounds odd, like COLD drank and TEE vee and MOUNT Hope.....
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