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the true meaning of y'all
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

i would like to point a few things out as a southern gal.

y'all is a contraction between you and all. two words are not needed in the english language but then the people who use this term on a regular basis (like myself) don't really care about that. basically the 'vous' form in french or well, we won't get into the duplicity of latin. there is a contraction ('yall' would cry itself to sleep at night), and it goes between the y and the a. thank you. . . . now in the wider 'verse i'm sure there is room for interpretation! *wink*

i finished "what went wrong: the clash between islam and modernity" (i didn't even know 'modernity' was proper english!) today only because i made up my mind about the pez dispensers.
jayne's head is sporting with a certain hat w'all know and love: yellow 'supposed to taste like bananas' (gwen has forever scarred this word for me)
kaylee and simon: grape dimatap (did anyone else drink this stuff as a kid?)
wash: orange
river, book, and inara: cherry
mal and zoe: the mixed pack of yellow 'supposed . . .', orange and cherry

tonight i think i will meditate on the songs that make me think of firefly. so far i've got
*"our time is running out" by muse
*"shh" by frou frou
*"second sight" by placebo
* and in a weird way "judy and the dream of horses" by belle & sebastian
all for river. i wonder if "come fly with me" (sinatra or bublé) would be to cliché for wash . . . comments ideas welcome!
signing off.


COMMENTS

Monday, October 17, 2005 2:25 AM

CPTJACKMURRAY


what I think is halarious is my friend found a site on how to annoy a yankee and one of them was like say words that are two syllabols (bad spelling) long and say them as one. and take a three syllabol word.

EX. fire to fi-er. i kn0ow i messed up but if u can pick it up you are either a yankee or don't care.

Friday, August 19, 2005 2:33 AM

REALLYKAYLEE


R1Z-- mighty shiny deduction: but the trick is to pronounce it all y'all'iz. i can't even claim to be able to do that: but my mom's side can!

Friday, August 19, 2005 2:31 AM

REALLYKAYLEE


thank you anon.. but in rivernot's defense the more words you can fit into a sentence and still have a coherent meaning the better!
TN! i like the chat. area: pretty (and next to GA!)

Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:07 AM

R1Z


And the plural possessive--"all y'all's"

Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:16 AM

REALLYKAYLEE


it gets really fun when you use the inclusive form
we all or w'all!

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:31 PM

RIVERNOT


And the plural of y'all is all y'all. At least that's what I remember. Been a few years.


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