I will get you, Laga. I don't know where. I don't know when. But it will happen.
"all y'all" means "all of you, and your immediate families," right?
Y'all is useful because English is sorely lacking the second person plural. If you are talking to one person, it's "you," which is one of many things the horrible fake Southern accents do wrong. If you're talking to one person and say "y'all," that means you're including more than one person in your statement, e.g. "Are y'all coming to the party?" is asking if the person and his spouse, family, friends and so on are coming.
you might get charged a late fee penalty.
yeah basically I'd be paying an extra $11 so I could try the recipe. My registration doesn't expire 'till the end of the month but the sooner I renew the less it costs.
Y'all is useful because English is sorely lacking the second person plural.
Technically, it's that we've made the second person plural all-encompassing. ("Thou" vs. "you".)
Edited because I reread Juliana's post and realized that that was exactly what she was saying. Doh!
I can get by without a second-person plural, but oh how I miss the intimacy of "thou." Second-person singular familiar
rocks!
ok, in the category of funny coincidences, I finally finish packing up big sea bag of laundry, and, in one fell swoop, heave it on to the bed and collapse on said bed. Before I could exhale, Mr. iPod starts playing "Get up, stand up". As I turn to curse the random music generator I notice that the clock its sitting in says 4:20.
A double coincidence! Love it! Ok off to clean said bag o' laundry.
My understanding is that thou isn't actually plural--it's informal singular
If that was to me, that's indeed what I was trying to say.
I just edited my post once I re-read. I thought you were saying something else. Brain=tired. Sorry!
So was "you" both informal plural and formal singular?
