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GORDON 
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,14:06 |
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So we're all in the car and my Polish mother in law, who has never lived south of Toledo, Ohio, is telling my kid how she has a southern accent. My kid is saying, "No you don't, not at all." and I am wondering if it is valid for someone to self-identify as having a southern accent, and if I am then socially required to agree with their self-image in spite of all evidence.
So my mother in law goes ahead and proves she has a southern accent.... with the slight lilt in her voice she says, "You all. See?"
See actually enunciated YOU and then ALL.
If she had a single ounce of a sense of humor I'd have thought she was kidding.
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,14:45 |
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It was a car full 'o Yankees, from hood to hitch, anyway. I wouldn't expect any better than that. *sigh*
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,15:05 |
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Well, personally, I self-identify as southern. I just don't pretend I have a perfect southern accent..... but I do know the correct usage of both y'all, and all y'all.
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,15:11 |
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Sure, but that's easy. What about you'uns and y'all'uns?
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Troy
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,15:37 |
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bless her heart
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,15:44 |
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Southern is one of a few accents I can fake at will. I get less convincing the more you pin down a region.
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,17:33 |
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The Pennsylvania/Appalachia y'uns is a yankee thing, not a southern thing.
You'uns is y'all applied to a group of children. Y'all'uns is the all y'all equivalent.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,17:35 |
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The usage is the same, then. Y'uns seems more genuinely lazy though, so it seems more legitimate.
Edited by GORDON on Jun. 02 2015,17:35
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2015,17:42 |
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Huh. That's the first I've heard that y'uns is specifically reserved for addressing groups of children. I stand corrected.
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