Re: English 2sg/pl

On Mon, 5 May 2003 20:27:19 -0600 Muke Tever <muke@...> writes:
> From: "Estel Telcontar" <estel_telcontar@...>
> > Actually, in my opinion the issue is that English doesn't have an
> > unambiguous 2sg.  There are unambiguous 2pl's, though they vary
> > from
> > dialect to dialect:
> > youguys /yugaiz/ (mine)
> > yous/youse/yas
> > y'all
> > are all unambiguously 2pl
> > But "you" can be 2sg or 2pl.
> But not in all forms: the reflexive is "yourself" or "yourselves",
> marked for number.
> So if yourself wants an unambiguous 2sg, yourself can have it :x)
>     *Muke!
-

Actually, talking about this topic, as a native user of
"you-guys/you-all" who has somewhat picked up "y'all" from both this list
and a from a friend from northern Florida ("Baja Alabama" as Nik calls
it), what are the proper possessive forms in "y'all" dialects?  I find
myself using a wide variety, including:
your-all's (from my native 'you-all')
y'aller (/-r=/ from 'your', including the 'your'/'you're' homophony)
y'allser (transposition of 'your-all's'?)
y'all's


-Stephen (Steg)
 "soak yourself in excitement"
     ~ radio commercial i just heard while writing this email
       no idea what the heck it was about, though :-P

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