In my Texas dialect "all ya'll" means sorta like "each
and every" or "every one".
How are ya'll? (As a group)
How are all ya'll? (How is each one of you?)
Are ya'll going? (All/most of you?)
Are all ya'll going? (No one's staying home??)
Adam
--- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
wrote:
> > > _all y'all_ 2pl but but more persons than
> _y'all_
> >
> >I take this to be "all of yall" /al@j@l/, and to be
> simply "all of you"
> >in yall-dialect.
>
> I suspect that's the origin, but I've heard it only
> as ["al.jal].
>
>
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