Do we need the SR-71?

They just say this:

I am fin store.

And I even heard just this:

Fin store.

Now THATS some contractionating

I'll say. I've lived in the South all my life and never heard those.
Southern dialects may sound quaint but they at least have an internal
grammatical consistency. Those don't even make sense.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM


Well...they "sorta" make sense...

The only place Ive heard it is in southwest georgia...

And I must admit the first few times I did I had NO idea what the heck those
folks were talking about....and the funny part is most of the other sentences
they uttered were fairly consistent and understandable....but then they would
plop a "fin sentence" in and all of sudden it was like they spoke Zulu or
something....

And as an aside, the worst (best?) accents I've ever heard was from a group of
Georgia cheerleaders....their grammar was fine, but the accent was so thick you
almost couldnt understand what they were saying...and I live/grew up in the
south!

take care

Blll

"BllFs6" wrote:
And as an aside, the worst (best?) accents I've ever heard
was from a group of Georgia cheerleaders....their grammar
was fine, but the accent was so thick you almost couldnt
understand what they were saying...

I love a strong Cajun/New Orleans accent above all. It's a joy to
listen to a real South Louisiana homeboy talk.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan

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THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID


Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?



On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:45:49 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


"alexy" wrote:
This affectation is brought to you by the same people
who use "y'all" in the singular when trying to imitate an
accent from the US South.

Yup, it's a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood never gets it right.

It's a "hyper-ruralism," an error caused by trying too hard to sound
country, the opposite of another pet peeve of mine, the "he and I"
hyperurbanism, as in "Jane took John and I to dinner."

"alexy" wrote in message
...
"Gary Drescher" wrote:


The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines y'all as "YOU--usually used
in
addressing two or more persons or sometimes one person as representing
also
another or others".

Here's more of the entry from the online dictionary, which will
hopefully put to rest this silly notion that some GDYs have that y'all
can be singular:

:Regional Note: The single most famous feature of Southern United States
:dialects is the pronoun y'all, sometimes heard in its variant you-all.
:You-all functions with perfect grammatical regularity as a second person
lural pronoun, taking its own possessive you-all's (or less frequently,
:your-all's, where both parts of the word are inflected for possession):
:You-all's voices sound alike.

A different regional note: In Texas, y'all (NEVER you-all) is singular. No
self-respecting Texan would use y'all when talking to more than one person.
The plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all."

Gerry

Amzanig huh?

Tahts' colo!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

A Keyhole satellite on a geosynchronous orbit? Jay, you might really,
_really_
want to check your sources.

Whoops. You're right, of course.

No source to check -- just my own faulty finger/brain connection!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Gerry Caron" wrote:
A different regional note: In Texas, y'all (NEVER you-all) is
singular.
No self-respecting Texan would use y'all when talking to more
than one person. The plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all."

Sorry, Gerry, it just ain't so. If I ever say "y'all" to you, I mean you
and your family/friends/company, etc.

"Y'all" is NEVER singular (except on TV). It is short for "you all,"
used to make up for the absence of a distinct second person *plural*
pronoun in English. "All y'all" is just a redundancy, as in "refer
back."

It may be that Hollywood is corrupting the use of "y'all" among younger
Texans, but I haven't heard it yet.
--
Dan
Native Texan

"Dan Luke" wrote:


"Gerry Caron" wrote:
A different regional note: In Texas, y'all (NEVER you-all) is
singular.
No self-respecting Texan would use y'all when talking to more
than one person. The plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all."

Sorry, Gerry, it just ain't so. If I ever say "y'all" to you, I mean you
and your family/friends/company, etc.

"Y'all" is NEVER singular (except on TV). It is short for "you all,"
used to make up for the absence of a distinct second person *plural*
pronoun in English.

And I might point out that we Southerners are not the only ones to
compensate for this lack of a distinct 2nd person plural, and at least
we do it without any gender confusion! Took me a while in the midwest
to accept their inability to tell guys from gals, as in when they
asked a bunch of women "are you guys ready to leave?"
--
Alex
Make the obvious change in the return address to reply by email.

"Y'all" is NEVER singular (except on TV). It is short for "you all,"
used to make up for the absence of a distinct second person *plural*
pronoun in English.

What about the word "youis" (how the heck do you "spell" that anyways?)

Would "youis" be second person plural?

take care

Blll

What about the word "youis" (how the heck do you "spell" that anyways?)

Would "youis" be second person plural?

take care

Blll

In the ceter part of Pennsylvania youse is 2nd person plural, as in "Youse guys
ready to go?" As a Pennsylvanian who lives in the south, my contibution to 2nd
person plural is 'yousell."

So, should I say "Yousall get ya cahs off the street befa the sno plahs come"
to my neighbors, you might correctly guess the middle part of my life was spent
in Massachusetts.