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I just realized I could use NaNoWriMo to keep track of my progress and to motivate myself on the novel I'm editing for the DMG. Huh. Maybe I'll give it a go.
In other news my work computer just got replaced, so today is devoted to reinstalling all the stuff I need to actually work. Whee! And my backup didn't get lost like it did time before last!
Am also rocketing through the Kerry Greenwood mysteries about Phryne Fisher, the rich, titled, Australian sleuth. In one of the recent ones, Greenwood has an American Southern character use "y'all" ... wrong. The character in question is speaking to a bartender, directing the way her drink is to be made, and says something to the effect of "Y'all want to put [X] into there." Oh no no no no. Y'all is plural. You don't use it to a single person if you're referring to them alone--if you use it to an individual, it's because you're referring to a group that they're a member of (kin, household, company, all bartenders in general, etc.).
What is stopping me from emailing her with that--as she provides her email address in the book--is the sure and certain knowledge that she has been emailed many times over already by affronted Southerners.
P.S. Bless her heart.
In other news my work computer just got replaced, so today is devoted to reinstalling all the stuff I need to actually work. Whee! And my backup didn't get lost like it did time before last!
Am also rocketing through the Kerry Greenwood mysteries about Phryne Fisher, the rich, titled, Australian sleuth. In one of the recent ones, Greenwood has an American Southern character use "y'all" ... wrong. The character in question is speaking to a bartender, directing the way her drink is to be made, and says something to the effect of "Y'all want to put [X] into there." Oh no no no no. Y'all is plural. You don't use it to a single person if you're referring to them alone--if you use it to an individual, it's because you're referring to a group that they're a member of (kin, household, company, all bartenders in general, etc.).
What is stopping me from emailing her with that--as she provides her email address in the book--is the sure and certain knowledge that she has been emailed many times over already by affronted Southerners.
P.S. Bless her heart.
y'all
What does "all "y'all" mean to you?
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I should at least be grateful that it's spelled correctly in the book.
ETA: Thinking on it a bit more, I'd never use "all y'all" except *all* of the group in question is a necessary component.
"How y'all doing?" vs. "All y'all going to the restaurant?"
And I'd probably say "y'all all" in that case anyway. "All y'all" just isn't used much in my particular dialect.
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I grew up in the SW around Texans, and to me "Y'all" has always been inclusive of a group -- take "all y'all," which I think can mean "all of you, or any of you." Or the famous "Y'all come back now" - clearly that's not just addressed to one person.
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There are exceptions but quite often it's wrong phrasing, spelling, not knowing that we use capital letters for all nouns, having no idea which definite article to put before a noun (there are male, female and neutral ones) - or simply using inappropriate words for the occasion.
I wouldn't be surprised if Spanish or French readers of English fiction have similar experiences.
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(I just replied to a phone call asking a question with "I don't* got my camera up here t'day, but I c'n try to remember to brang it t'marra." XD The coworker I was talking to always brings out my Texas.)
* Pronounced in a way it's hard to spell, really, in which the "d" is elided pretty much to nonexistence: "I on't got
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:)
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