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Re: CHAT: More enter-bringings

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 23:06
yl-ruil wrote:
> > Robert Hailman euecuet: > > > reason. Usually, those people aren't very friendly, though. Y'all here > > seem friendly enough, though, so I'll probably stick around for quite a > > while. > > What with my death threats to poor Rob Hailman it seems that I'm the list's > token "North-American-usage-phobe", so I just thought I'd like to clear my > name a bit. I think that y'all is pretty funky- in my own idiolect I tend to > say "youse" for the second person plural, a usage picked up from my scottish > father. However, when I'm around my family I tend to use tha /T@/ for the > singular and yer /j@/ for the plural. Ah, different speech patterns for > different company. Feel free to disseminate, ridicule, tease etc. :-). > > Dan
I use y'all more on the internet then in real life, for no good reason other than that it's shorter. I guess we all have our own different ways of talking. One I do is that I pronounce "our" like "are", and I pronounce "hour" like "our" should be pronounced. It doesn't show up in print, though, so I guess I'm safe. -- Robert