Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Why I don't have a problem with the expression y'all

The English language, unlike Romance Languages, among others, does not have a distinctive second person pronoun for singular and plural. This leads to much confusion, and occasionally produces such awkward expressions as "yous." Ick. Y'all is a perfectly logical solution to this silly linguistic oversight.

Some southerners, however, have confused matters more by using 'y'all' as a singular, and 'all y'all' for the plural. That's wont do, although I appreciate the effort to awknowledge all of our inner multiplicity.

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