You guys don't know what you're talking about.

Albert York                          



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Ian Patterson [SMTP:ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Monday, September 29, 2003 8:59 AM
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        Subject:        RE: ?Computerworld? article

        Coming from the North of England, I beg to differ that anything
remotely
        like "youse guys" or "y'all" or similar is a failing of the
"English"
        language.
        It may well be a failing of the American language, but that went off
on its
        own tangent when the Pilgrims left our fair land to seek equality
and
        baseball.

        Regards

        Ian Patterson
        Grange Management Consultants
        tel 01947 880458
        www.grange-systems.co.uk




        -----Original Message-----
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        [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of York, Albert
        Sent: 29 September 2003 16:06
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        Subject: RE: ?Computerworld? article


        In the north we say 'you guys'.

        Except in Brooklyn where they say "youse guys'.

        Albert York



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                Sent:   Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:33 PM
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                Rob,

                Please come here (Richmond, VA) and try to explain that to
all the
                Southerners here who think that "y'all" is singular and "all
y'all"
        is
                plural.  My freshman year RA quite succinctly explained that
"y'all"
                corrects one of the most severe failings of the English
language (at
        least
                in the minds of Southerners), the fact that "you" is both
singular
        and
                plural.

                Mike E.






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                You're wrong.  A true southerner never uses y'all in the
singular.

                Rob Berendt
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        temporary
                safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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                Come on Rob if youse is gonna try t' speek Suthern, git it
rite

                Y'all=singular
                Y'alls=plural

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                Thanks y'all.

                Rob Berendt
                --
                "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
        temporary
                safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                Benjamin Franklin
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