Fine, I guess there is no reason for anyone to try to speak properly.

[RB TexLa]

[Recursion]

1. What, using "Y'all" means you're stupid now?

[panader0]

3. How about "youse guys"?

[Skip Intro]

2. Because he said, "y'all" you think he's stupid?

I'm not a huge fan of country music (or rap for that matter), but I was not embarrassed by or for Tim McGraw. Then again, I don't walk around with some false sense of superiority.

[jobycom]

9. I shore is! I yuse it all the time.

We'z all stupid down here.

[Staph]

4. I know zip about Tim McGraw, but ...

"y'all" is not an indicator of stupidity. It's actually a colloquial version of the second person plural pronoun, the equivalent of the French vous. Some of us smart folks from south of the Mason-Dixon line use y'all (or you all), and we are still capable of reading and understanding DU.

[RB TexLa]

6. I know plenty of people south of that line that have never used it.

[chalky]

18. I'm "south of that line" and use it all the time.

But don't mind me--I'm stupid.

[RB TexLa]

19. I'm south of it too. I have never and will never use that so called word

[chalky]

31. Ain't that a shame.

n/t

[Mr Generic Other]

41. that would be

people south of the line who have never used it.

[Vickers]

5. Let it be noted: RGBolen now has doubts about Tim McGraw's intelligence.

:rofl:

[RB TexLa]

7. He could have tried to speak properly.

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[readmoreoften]

15. Is that like dick-sore or dick-bent, but for us ladies?

All y'all know I'm just kidding. :spank:

Remember y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.

[Lex]

21. y'all is never singular

nt

[readmoreoften]

27. It is in parts of Texas.

[Vickers]

22. That's no lady...

...that's a TRAMP!

Love,

Vickers

:P

[chalky]

24. I was fixin' to ask that same question.

:)

[Dorian Gray]

23. WTF?

I'm a New Yorker and I think that's speaking properly. Who cares?

[AspenRose]

8. Leave Tim alone, he's a good Dem

[pacalo]

10. It is "people WHO know..." instead of "THAT know."

But you get points for spelling "y'all" correctly, as the apostrophe substitutes for the missing letters (you all).

:evilgrin:

[Recursion]

20. Burn NT

[Lex]

25. LOL--excellent point.

nt

[pocoloco]

11. Don't fucking hold back! You got something to say, say it!

Tell us how you got embarrassed.

Inquiring minds would like to know.

[RB TexLa]

13. Many people from Louisiana do speak properly. When someone from Louisiana

is on television and doesn't even try, it's embarrassing.

[Odin2005]

45. your classist prejudice against different dialects is disgusting.

Grammar Nazis and Prescriptivist Grammarians can go suck it.

[pacalo]

16. He told us upthread that it was his use of the word "y'all", loco.

[readmoreoften]

12. Damn y'all... No wonder why I stayed in school so long.

Three graduate degrees and I still can't speak the Queen's English. Do I have to give back my scholarships, too?

[Ishoutandscream2]

14. RG? Really, come on!

You are kidding, right? I'm a bit tired right now.

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. You embarrass yourself.

[petersjo02]

26. Saying "people that" instead of "people who" is

way more stupid than "y'all." "That" refers to things like furniture/tractors, spaghetti. Use "who" when talking about human beings. Pretty basic middle-school grammar.

[Lex]

33. I think you made him erase his whole mess of a post.

:rofl:

[mondo joe]

28. I'm much more embarrassed by your bizarre and arbitrary rules for acceptable behavior.

To be honest.

[petronius]

29. We were at a party once and the hostess asked "y'all want something to drink?"

I told her to "fuck off" and we stormed out of there.

[Vickers]

30. Good for y'all!

:P

[readmoreoften]

34. Good for y'all, indeed.

Anyone who says y'all is a white person who has lived in the south or is a black person or is a white or asian or latino person who has lived around white people from the south or black people, or is a person who has been listening to a lot of rap or country music or gospel. I don't want to ever meet a person like that! O the horrors!

[Vickers]

35. ***psssst!***

I think they were kidding.

:P

[readmoreoften]

37. I do too.

But thanks for the heads up!

[Vickers]

40. Oops!

:blush:

Sorry...I've seen more misunderstandings here in the last couple of weeks than in the last several years.

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. I bet they all had a fucking good laugh over THAT one. n/t

[mondo joe]

32. This is as funny as your flip-out over fist-bumping. NT

[readmoreoften]

36. Righto, good man, righto. Received pronunciation is crucial to the continuation of the species.

Contractions are the devils work. Jeeves! You have forgotten to sprinkle the edible gold on my latte once again! I shall have you fired if you test me a-gain!

[flvegan]

39. The King Adrock rhymed y'all with y'all.

I can't stop y'all
Tock tick y'all
And if you think that you're slick you'll catch a brick y'all

oh, and

Yes yes y'all and yes yes y'all
I'm always on time never the less y'all
And that's right y'all, I shed light y'all
I've got no time in my life to get uptight y'all

But then, he's a "funky ass Jew" born in Jersey.

[Catherine Vincent]

42. y'all = you all

That is all.

[DarbyUSMC]

43. My last name is Yaw. 'Yaw come back now, yaw hear?" I could go on, but

it's tedious........... on the front of a shirt I got one Christmas is a family picture and on the back is "Yaw Mom". My stepmother, who is from Jamaica, especially got a laugh out of that.

"Lighten up Francis."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrllCZw8jiM

[Odin2005]

44. What's wrong with "y'all"? it may not be "standard" American English but...

it's a perfectly OK 2nd person plural pronoun. English hasn't had a a singlar-plural distinction in the 2nd person ever since "Thou" disappeared, so I don't see a problem with a new pronoun developing to fill in the gap.

My speech uses the Mid-Western equivalent of "y'all," which is "y'guys (and y'guyses as the possesive-genitive form)

Languages change. If the Grammar Nazis don't like that they can STFU.