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echo: pol_inc
to: MARK LEWIS
from: EARL CROASMUN
date: 2003-06-10 16:48:26
subject: Second Bill of Rights

-> ->> ya'll come back, heah?

->  EC> That is the correct useage, and it survived for centuries in
->  EC> rural areas, mountains, and the Southern United States.  But
->  EC> now, if someone uses the second person plural, there will be
->  EC> a snob nearby who won't understand and will take it as a sign
->  EC> of a lack of education.  But we get our own snickers in when
->  EC> the snob tries to mimic it and winds up incorrectly using
->  EC> "ya'll" when referring to a single person.

-> since when has that been incorrect? many's the time that i hear folk telling
-> me, one individual, while on my way out the door, "ya'll come
back!"... is that
-> a sign of lack of education?  :wink:

Not uneducated.  Just fake-folksy.

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