Re: New Front Desk members
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- Subject: Re: New Front Desk members
- From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:12:26 +0200
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:41:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:04:36 -0700, Joel Aelwyn <fenton@debian.org> said:
>
> > *) English common usage (rather than formal usage) is rapidly and
> > widely adopting "singular they" (much like a lot of the country uses
> > "y'all", or "you all" for those who don't want to sound Southern,
> > for a second person plural). This may be offensive to purists, but
> > frankly, purists shouldn't be speaking English in the first
> > place. It's a terrible language for purity. :)
>
> A nit: y'all is singular. "all y'all" is plural. Notherners
> often get this wrong.
Hmm. In my experience in Houston, the singular was y'all and the
plural was y'alls. Could this be region-specific? Or perhaps
a city / country distinction?
Richard Braakman
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