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Article #3626Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll
From: Steve Tate
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 14:37
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 14:37
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Tom Gargulak (tomg@bnr.ca) wrote: > See the definition below from XWEBSTER. When addressing one person > representing others. Y'all get it? > used in addressing two or more persons or sometimes > one person as representing also another or others Precisely --- they represent others, so it refers to more than one person. Therefore it's plural.... For the other person who said they had been in Texas all their life and "y'all" (which they didn't spell right) can refer to one person... if you know people who use y'all this way, then they misuse the word. It's one of the most obviously plural words in any language! (And yes, I've lived in the south all my life, if that makes a difference to you.) -- Steve Tate --- srt@cs.unt.edu | Conservatives: People who think that Dept. of Computer Sciences | nothing should be done for the first University of North Texas | time. Denton, TX 76201 |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103916,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-14 07:40:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!zaphod!srt From: srt@zaphod.csci.unt.edu (Steve Tate) Newsgroups: tx.general,dfw.general Subject: Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll Followup-To: tx.general,dfw.general Date: 14 Oct 1994 14:37:46 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <37m53q$ppj@hermes.unt.edu> References: <CxH0CM.BFM@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> <37jcss$jfe@cleo.abt.com> <37js6p$9jp@ns1.unicomp.net> <37k6ht$3nb@hermes.unt.edu> <37kb6m$5pp@crchh518.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: zaphod.csci.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]