Subj : Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 19:46:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Moondog <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
 Ni>   By: Moondog to Gamgee on Tue Apr 25 2023 11:14 am

 > Ni>> I don't know how "y'all" and "ya'll" would be pronounced
 > Ni>> differently..?

 > The first is basically one syllable, and the second is (sort of)
 > two. ;-)

 Mo> Y'all is well accepted. "Your people" is taken in a derogatory manner.

 Ni> I'm not sure how that relates to the past posts in this thread..

It doesn't.  I asked him the same thing.  Kinda strange how things jump 
all over the map.

 Ni> And I've never heard anyone say "your people" in place of
 Ni> "y'all".

Neither have I.

 Ni>  And I don't think "y'all" is really synonymous with
 Ni> "your people"..  Most often, I hear it in the context of
 Ni> something like "Dinner's ready, y'all", where "your people"
 Ni> wouldn't really work in that kind of sentence.

100%.



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