-> ->> 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:

->  EC> Not uneducated.  Just fake-folksy.

-> what's fake about my 99 year old, retired school teacher, grandmother who has
-> spoken like that all her life?

Okay then, uneducated.  Just trying to spare your feelings.

Using the second person plural when referring to one person would be
technically incorrect if it were meant literally.  If you saw a group of
five people, pointed at one of them, and yelled "I am going to sue
y'all," you have pretty much threatened all five of them.

In a purely social context like the one you mention, it is probably just
an attempt to be inclusive.  She's saying that it is okay not only for
YOU in particular to come back but for your parents, kids, siblings, and
friends to drop by.

Or maybe she is just seeing double....




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