Re: CHAT: More enter-bringings

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