Annexation of Canada

[jokerman]

Well it seems that you've successfully hijacked this thread with the discussion of the useless word "yall".

Useless?

Yes "you guys" is much better!

A guy is a male, so it dosen't.

I wouldn't understand people not from the north to get something like this.

Lol, I get it now.  "You guys" in the North, it's perfect.

[MasterJedi]

Well it seems that you've successfully hijacked this thread with the discussion of the useless word "yall".

Useless?

Yes "you guys" is much better!

A guy is a male, so it dosen't.

I wouldn't understand people not from the north to get something like this.

Lol, I get it now.  "You guys" in the North, it's perfect.

I see you get it, that's why we call the South "you girls"!

[Sam Spade]

"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?

I'd much prefer to use two words that don't literally apply, than one word that isn't actually even a word.

The only thing I can figure is that many of your women up here (esp. in New England) look like men already, that "you guys" is quite an accurate description. 

[jokerman]

"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?

I'd much prefer to use two words that don't literally apply, than one word that isn't actually even a word.

The only thing I can figure is that many of your women up here (esp. in New England) look like men already, that "you guys" is quite an accurate description. 

woot

[Gabu]

This topic has been very informative; I now know what to call a Southerner any time I want to be annoying.

[Joe Republic]

The only thing I can figure is that many of your women up here (esp. in New England) look like men already, that "you guys" is quite an accurate description.

At least our females look human.

woot

[Alcon]

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

[Gabu]

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

Just don't start adding unnecessary syllables.

[7,052,770]

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?

[Gabu]

Do not you say don't?

Spoken like a true Southerner.

[Alcon]

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.

[7,052,770]

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").

[Gabu]

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.

[7,052,770]

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

[Gabu]

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.

[7,052,770]

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...

[Bono]

I always use "you people".

[Platypus]

I just use youse

[Siege40]

Is my country under threat again? I really don't want to have to run to the Windsor-Detroit border with a Shotgun and a back pack of military rations... again.

Siege

[Platypus]

if we do this, i'm outta here-for at least two weeks

[minionofmidas]

"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.

[Platypus]

You is acceptable, and y'all is actually gramtically correct. Youse is most commonly used, though; at least in australia.

[Sam Spade]

You is acceptable, and y'all is actually gramtically correct. Youse is most commonly used, though; at least in australia.

Brooklyn, Australia??

[7,052,770]

"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."

[Joe Republic]

I have to apologize to Alcon for beginning the chain of events that brought his thread ridiculously off topic.  Sorry buddy.