Annexation of Canada

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option 1!

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Yeah, I'm with Bono and Peter on this.  It would never happen in real life, which would make it unrealistic and set a questionable precedent.  And we're ridiculously undercrowded anyway, so adding more states/regions will hardly help things.

Option 4.

IRV would never happen in real life either, so yall's logic does not follow.

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But the severe undercrowding is okay though?


Quick Grammar Nazism point here.  Doesn't "y'all" apply only to a group of people, and not just one?  I know it's an odd question considering it's not actually a word, but I just thought I'd ask.

By "y'all", he obviously means the forum elite conspiracy.

I meant you (Joe), Bono, and Peter, the two people you said in your post that follow your same logic. 

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Ah ha, now it makes sense!  I'm gradually getting to grips with the ongoing Southern murder of the English language. 

You mean improving.
Seriously, "yall" is an improvement on the English language.  It provides a separate word for the 2nd-person plural pronoun than the 2nd-person singular pronoun.

For example, in this sentence:
"What do you want?"
It cannot be determined whether the speaker is talking to a group or an individual.
But if "you" is used for singular and "yall" for plural, than it can be assumed that the speaker is talking to a single person, or else he would've said "What do yall want?"
There.

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Saying "you guys" around here will get you lynched.  And I'll come watch.
Yall all the way!

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Saying "you guys" around here will get you lynched.  And I'll come watch.
Yall all the way!

You guys really need to chill out about "you guys".

No, yall need to recognize what an improvement yall is to the English language and use it...a simple one-wrd 2nd-person plural pronoun that's distinct from the singular.

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"Y'all" is about 100,000 times better than that ubitquitous "You guys" that you hear so often in the Northeast/Midwest.

I often hear "you guys" when I'm out on a date with a woman from a waiter/waitress.  It makes me want to punch him in the head.  I am not going out with a guy, unlike others who populate this forum.

So what's the problem?  It's obvious to everybody in that situation - you, the waiter, and the woman you're with - what's going on.  Why do you feel that his choice of words is an affront to your sexuality?

Insecurity.

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It's two words. "You all".

Actually I've heard it stands for "ya all," making the position of the apostrophe ambiguous, either "ya'll" or "y'all."  I prefer to eliminate the apostrophe to avoid this, "yall" and make it seem like a standard formal word.

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Perhaps I'm the only person in the world who says "you all" in this instance.

why not contract it down?  Do not you say don't?

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Perhaps I'm the only person in the world who says "you all" in this instance.

why not contract it down?  Do not you say don't?

Because "y'all" sounds stupid to me, and "don't" doesn't.

Yall doesn't sound any more stupid than any other contraction, such as wouldn't (pronounced "wutent") or wasn't (pronounced "whatent").

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Yall doesn't sound any more stupid than any other contraction, such as wouldn't (pronounced "wutent") or wasn't (pronounced "whatent").

"Whatent"?

I think you missed a letter in your pronounciation.

yeah, there's no need for the t at the end.  "whatun" is more correct

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Yall doesn't sound any more stupid than any other contraction, such as wouldn't (pronounced "wutent") or wasn't (pronounced "whatent").

"Whatent"?

I think you missed a letter in your pronounciation.

yeah, there's no need for the t at the end.  "whatun" is more correct

Remind me never to travel to the South.

aw, c'mon...I've been to your homeland, and I didn't care that yall talk weird...

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"Y'all" is about 100,000 times better than that ubitquitous "You guys" that you hear so often in the Northeast/Midwest.

I often hear "you guys" when I'm out on a date with a woman from a waiter/waitress.  It makes me want to punch him in the head.  I am not going out with a guy, unlike others who populate this forum.

So what's the problem?  It's obvious to everybody in that situation - you, the waiter, and the woman you're with - what's going on.  Why do you feel that his choice of words is an affront to your sexuality?

Insecurity.

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It's two words. "You all".

Actually I've heard it stands for "ya all," making the position of the apostrophe ambiguous, either "ya'll" or "y'all."

Except that ya is not an english world.

Yes it is.  It means "you."