The summer, heat and some of y'alls comportment
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KLB
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.....each and every one of y'all.
Runincolorado
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This always happens to me when I want to get a new car, or get rid of the girlfriends so I can get a new car.... Anyone want a 2010 Honda Accord Coupe?
I spent 23 years in the south, guess I should not have surrounded myself with a bunch of bankers from the north. I never used y'all and was always told "you ain't from 'round here are yaw, bubba?" I clearly missed out
z987k
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Nope. You picked it up somewhere else. No one says y'all north/west of the mason dixon line.
I learned about yins last year.
chrisreedrules
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Whatch yins talkin about?
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Boris Badenov
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He did, but I voted against it on the grounds that he'd class the joint up.
Then I got entirely too drunk and watched some dude vacuum the ceiling at the MGM.
DPApilot
GUYSH! GUYSH! GUYSH!
Such a GREAT night!
almost as good at Pedroid's sister leaving her phone at the FBO in SDL...
Good guy DPA "Sure, you can use my phone."
DergText " Doooooo0o0o0000ds, Gulley's about to......."
*screeching*
genot
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Don't get me started on the word Y'all. Granted it's short for you all but even then it's just bad. Just say spare the old school "text speak" (another pet peeve) and say everyone (a proper substitute for Y'all).
But then again I don't have a problem with the word ain't (if used right). But then again everyone has double standards.
Ya'll is the missing second person plural contraction in the English language. What specifically about second person plural makes you're, don't and aren't OK, but ya'll abhorrent? The word, or ehem "word", is derived from the Gaelic languages mixed with middle English.
Is the aversion because of the language mingling, the contraction or just the idea of the simple southerner using the term?
Tommay85
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Hate to break it too you, but the Midwest "accent" is how the English language is supposed to be spoken...
Boris Badenov
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Hate to break it too you, but the Midwest "accent" is how the English language is supposed to be spoken...
Not according to the, uh, English.
genot
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Ok, the American English accent as brought to us by Marconi. Which variant of English in England do you proffer as the correct accent?
I've spent time in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Yun's about as cattywampus speech wise as us Tennesseans. That and the roads suck up in quasi Yankee land.
z987k
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Colonial English was much closer to the newer English English than present day Queen's English is due to the common folk adopting the aristocratic accent.
Boris Badenov
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There's a fairly strong argument to be made that the dialects of Eastern Kentucky and *ritual hateful spit* Tennessee (@genot) are closer to the English that existed around the time of colonization of the New World than anything else. Basically because there were fewer outside influences to uh "corrupt" the language than there were anywhere else. Because, like, you had to work pretty hard to get there, and who would want to go?
That said, the whole argument is a bit silly. If you were to read Beowulf as it was probably spoken before being written down, you'd sound like the freaking Swedish Chef. Bork Bork Bork!
gotWXdagain
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I believe actually that the northern Virginia dialect is as close to the queens English as it gets. I heard a linguist on NPR one time demonstrating them, basically the NoVa dialect is the exact same as British except slowed down.
Boris Badenov
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I don't doubt that the NVA dialect is closest to modern British English. Makes sense, as it's the dialect of the Capitol. But if you're curious as to what it sounded like when Christopher Newport was castigating his ne'er-do-wells, the general agreement seems to be that you should take a trip to Appalachia. If you get there, tell them Boris "halped" you.
Tommay85
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Bah, get out of here with your facts and let me troll the west coaster in peace!