Linguistic discussion of "y'all"
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I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?2
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DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?1
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DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?4
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DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?3
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ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?3
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DAZ0273 said:ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?
*not a native Spanish speaker lol
I would have expected a Yankee from the northeast to have said "yous guys" maybe though.0 -
shardwick said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?0
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DAZ0273 said:shardwick said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?
It can also be used in the harmless colloquial way others have described.
It kind of comes down to tone, inflection, context, and a number of other factors that can get "lost in translation" when posted online.0 -
It's a grouping, so you can use it to be inclusive familiar "Y'all need anything right now?" or to be exclusive dismissive "I'm going to need to ask y'all to leave..."
It's all in the tone of voice. I like to laugh about the Television South compared to The Actual South whenever I see it. I'm fully aware of how we are presented to the world lol.0 -
Y'all yell yolo1
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ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?
*not a native Spanish speaker lol
I would have expected a Yankee from the northeast to have said "yous guys" maybe though.Yinz or die.../Native Picksburgher1 -
ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:ThaRoadWarrior said:DAZ0273 said:I don't normally tend to flame the Dev's but seriously just using "y'all" in any form of response that is going to be shared and scrutinised regardless of being "official" or not - it isn't a great example of professionalism or media savvy communication is it?
*not a native Spanish speaker lol
I would have expected a Yankee from the northeast to have said "yous guys" maybe though.0 -
Making second person singular and plural the same was an idiot move. Curse you culture paradigm shift! Perhaps some medieval Cardashian-types influenced it this way.
FYI: There is a joke that "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.1 -
Y'all sure diverted this thread from the original topic.0
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@DAZ0273 The main use of y'all is just an easier way of saying "you all." I'm from Texas so saying y'all is about as normal as a Brit saying something like bloody hell. Oddly enough because of the internet I say stuff like "you guys" a lot more and I've gotten Canadian friends to say y'all.bluewolf said:Y'all sure diverted this thread from the original topic.3
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shardwick said:@DAZ0273 The main use of y'all is just an easier way of saying "you all." I'm from Texas so saying y'all is about as normal as a Brit saying something like bloody hell. Oddly enough because of the internet I say stuff like "you guys" a lot more and I've gotten Canadian friends to say y'all.bluewolf said:Y'all sure diverted this thread from the original topic.
Righto, jolly good stuff, carry on you fellows!
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DAZ0273 said:shardwick said:@DAZ0273 The main use of y'all is just an easier way of saying "you all." I'm from Texas so saying y'all is about as normal as a Brit saying something like bloody hell. Oddly enough because of the internet I say stuff like "you guys" a lot more and I've gotten Canadian friends to say y'all.bluewolf said:Y'all sure diverted this thread from the original topic.
Righto, jolly good stuff, carry on you fellows!0 -
MegaBee said:DAZ0273 said:shardwick said:@DAZ0273 The main use of y'all is just an easier way of saying "you all." I'm from Texas so saying y'all is about as normal as a Brit saying something like bloody hell. Oddly enough because of the internet I say stuff like "you guys" a lot more and I've gotten Canadian friends to say y'all.bluewolf said:Y'all sure diverted this thread from the original topic.
Righto, jolly good stuff, carry on you fellows!What did the Devs ever do for us?Reg: They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.Reg: Yes.Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.Reg: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?Xerxes:Gwen Prix.Reg: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.Masked Activist: And Saved Covers!Stan: Oh yes... saved covers, Reg, you remember what players vines used to be like.Reg: All right, I'll grant you that Grand Prix and Saved Covers are two things that the Devs have done...Stan: And the change to Loaner nodes...Reg: (sharply) Well yes obviously the change to the loaner nodes... the loaner nodes go without saying. But apart from Gwen Prix, the saved covers and the change to the loaner nodes...Another Masked Activist: Mighty Tokens...Other Masked Voices:New PvE's... Win's Based PvP... Characters with true Health regeneration...Reg: All right... all right... but apart from saved covers, Gwen Prix, changes to loaner nodes, Mighty Tokens, Wins based PvP AND characters with true health regeneration... what have the Devs done for us?Xerxes: Champion Reward updates!Reg: (very angry, he's not having a good meeting at all) What!? Oh... (scornfully) Champions Reward updates, yes... shut up!
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Is that how the cockneys are talking these days? Must be that hipster gentrification. It certainly didn’t sound like that around the old Boleyn ground.0
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AXP_isme said:Is that how the cockneys are talking these days? Must be that hipster gentrification. It certainly didn’t sound like that around the old Boleyn ground.
There are no (or very few) Cockneys left around the Boleyn and very few in West Ham or even East Ham these days. Massive change in the area.
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