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  • #46
    And yet another example. Keep going.
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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    • #47
      i'm glad my thread generated useless "accent free" and "yall" arguments
      To us, it is the BEAST.

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      • #48
        You should be glad. It's one of your better threads, as it turns out.
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Sava View Post
          i'm glad my thread generated useless "accent free" and "yall" arguments
          So what did you uns want, pray tell? An Oxford debate on Suthern talkin'?

          "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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          • #50
            PLATO
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #51
              You uns, I don't ever hear it. Pray tell, I hear that.
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #52
                Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                You uns, I don't ever hear it. Pray tell, I hear that.
                "You uns" or "you'uns" is more predominant in Appalachia. It is quite common in East Tennessee. Not to suprising that you don't hear it much in Texas.
                "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                • #53
                  Pittsburgh folk say 'yinz'. (white) people in Philly often say 'youse'
                  "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
                  "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                    Pittsburgh folk say 'yinz'.
                    As someone who has been in Pittsburgh for about six months: This is bull****. Have you even ever been here?
                    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
                    ){ :|:& };:

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                    • #55
                      Alby is right.

                      Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in southwest Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians.




                      Pittsburgh English, popularly known by outsiders as Pittsburghese, is the traditional dialect of American English spoken by many residents of Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding Western Pennsylvania in the United States, a group referred to by locals and others as Yinzers.


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                      • #56
                        Wait...you are using a wiki article to argue with someone who lives there?

                        What is the world coming to.

                        "I know you are looking at the sky and feel it is blue, but the manual says it is green so you are wrong"

                        Green Sky Shakur!
                        "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by Tupac Shakur View Post
                          Alby is right.

                          Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in southwest Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians.




                          Pittsburgh English, popularly known by outsiders as Pittsburghese, is the traditional dialect of American English spoken by many residents of Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding Western Pennsylvania in the United States, a group referred to by locals and others as Yinzers.


                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English
                          Alby is wrong. I haven't heard this even once.
                          If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
                          ){ :|:& };:

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                          • #58
                            Then that settles it.
                            “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
                            "Capitalism ho!"

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                                Alby is wrong. I haven't heard this even once.
                                I get it. If you've never experienced something, then it doesn't exist.

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