I've always used "all y'all" as sort of an "everyone, yes, EVERYBODY, and that does mean you, too."
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
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Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
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Susan W. - Nov 05, 2007 11:22:05 am PST #2709 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
erikaj - Nov 05, 2007 11:22:12 am PST #2710 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I'd say so, yeah. As in my favorite phrase in The Corner, found in the local Social Service office: All of y'all that work in here can go fuck yourselves. That's when I knew Simon really spent all day watching people apply for benefits. Because that anonymous person captured something, imo.
Daisy Jane - Nov 05, 2007 11:22:43 am PST #2711 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I use y'all all the time, also y'all's. We carry people places too.
hippocampus - Nov 05, 2007 11:28:47 am PST #2712 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
oh, I thought someone was asking for a northern tarnslation.
but then, Iris woke up at 4:30 this morning. blessed daylight savings time.
lisah - Nov 05, 2007 11:28:54 am PST #2713 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Does "all of you" not convey the same thing ?
It literally means the same thing but doesn't have the same feeling.
brenda m - Nov 05, 2007 11:29:36 am PST #2714 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"all y'all" means "all of you, and your immediate families," right?
Never heard that one. Susan's take is more my own.
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2007 11:31:37 am PST #2715 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The only Southernisms I still use (I think) are y'all (perfectly good word) and "going to".
"Going to" is a Southernism? As in "I'm going to cook some dinner?"
There isn't really an equivalent to "all y'all" in standard English is there? Nothing that works as well anyway.
Does "all of you" not convey the same thing ?
I prefer the piquant "youse."
lisah - Nov 05, 2007 11:32:12 am PST #2716 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I prefer the piquant "youse."
I enjoy that one as well!
Scrappy - Nov 05, 2007 11:33:13 am PST #2717 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My mom says "hurry on" instead of "hurry up," which I think is a Michigan thing. I love y'all and use it when needed.
Daisy Jane - Nov 05, 2007 11:38:11 am PST #2718 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"Going to" is a Southernism? As in "I'm going to cook some dinner?"
I think we'd say "fixin' to," Susan.
ETA: My grandanday would have said "going to" as "gwan"