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  • What is the correct incorrect way of contracting "you all"?

    Discuss.
    17
    y'all
    76.47%
    13
    ya'll
    11.76%
    2
    I am too stupid to vote
    5.88%
    1
    Banana option, for the indecisive
    5.88%
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  • #2
    Discuss what? It's y'all and only a complete idiot doesn't know it.
    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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    • #3
      Are you making the, rather extravagant, claim that there are no complete idiots on Poly OT?

      Although some of our resident idiots have bits missing some are complete.

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      • #4
        The 'a' belongs to 'all' and not 'you', so given how contractions are usually done, the apostrophe belongs in front of the 'a', y'all.
        No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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        • #5
          this thrade has changed my life.
          The Wizard of AAHZ

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          • #6
            You may contract my services via my agent, my website, by phone, email, fax, carrier pigeon, or saying my name 3 times in the dark while looking into a mirror.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
              The 'a' belongs to 'all' and not 'you', so given how contractions are usually done, the apostrophe belongs in front of the 'a', y'all.
              You'd say that, wouldn't you?
              Indifference is Bliss

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                Discuss what? It's y'all and only a complete idiot doesn't know it.
                I believe that this is the first and probably last time in the history of apolyton that Slowwhand has been correct
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                • #9
                  i just say yall

                  since 1996, I've saved myself perhaps millions of keystrokes
                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #10
                    "You" (pl.)
                    The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                    • #11
                      It's not a contraction of you all, it's a contraction of Ye All.

                      ACK!
                      Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                      • #12
                        It's also a contraction of "you all will", and so should be y'al'l

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                        • #13
                          No. I saw it on the history channel(i think) earlier this week.

                          ACK!
                          Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                          • #14
                            The second person plural is 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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                            • #15
                              Theoretically they say "yinz" in Pittsburgh but after a total of 18 months living there (non consecutively) I haven't heard it once. Not on the buses, not from street vendors, or even at sports bars.
                              If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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