[QUOTE=WhyNot]
All y’all realize y’all are arguing about language, and slang, at that, right? They ain’t no one right answer, y’all! In some places, y’all is singular and in others, it be plural! Sheeit.
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Listen, all of y’all. It’s a sabotage.
Previous threads for those who are interested. One of them has one of the founders of that website to answer questions. Really is interesting.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
“All y’all” is a super-plural. Consider this scenario. You’re addressing pairs of competitors. You declare, “I’m gonna beat y’all, and I’m gonna beat y’all, and I’m gonna beat y’all… hell, I’m gonna beat all y’all.”
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Scary. This was going to be my exact response, except my scenario was:
“Okay, y’all want sweet, and y’all want unsweet. Got it. I’ll go get all y’all some tea*.”
or
“Y’all want pecan**, and y’all want pumpkin? I’ll go get all y’all some pie.”
Both phrases heard often at any of my family holiday gatherings.
*goes without saying, the tea is iced tea.
** referenced as “pecan”, here, so you Yankees would know what I’m talking about. Here at home, it’s called Karo Nut Pie
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon]
Listen, all of y’all. It’s a sabotage.
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Well now THAT’S stuck in my head the rest of the day. Thanks a LOT. 
By the way, googling my username, I found this – HA! Anyone think I should add to the definition? 
Another forum I belong to, which I thought was more obscure than this one, is rank almost 100 places higher.
Weird!
[QUOTE=FaerieBeth]
Scary. This was going to be my exact response, except my scenario was:
“Okay, y’all want sweet, and y’all want unsweet. Got it. I’ll go get all y’all some tea*.”
or
“Y’all want pecan**, and y’all want pumpkin? I’ll go get all y’all some pie.”
Both phrases heard often at any of my family holiday gatherings.
*goes without saying, the tea is iced tea.
** referenced as “pecan”, here, so you Yankees would know what I’m talking about. Here at home, it’s called Karo Nut Pie
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Thank God you’re here. It’s always good to have an informed voice of reason. 
I was also going to deal with his “I’m am” analogy, but thought better of it, owing to the prevalence of ADHD around here. Rather than “I’m am going to the store,” a better analogy might be “I am myself going to the store.” I am neither condoning nor condemning the usage; however, I’m making the point that the construction does have some practical and useful purpose for which it is therefore redeemable. One is saying that he — despite something, or notwithstanding something — is going to the store. The super-plural second person is equally practical and useful, and so 'I’m am" as an analogy fails.
I’m not the only one with my username, either.
You’re all right, I really meant to say 'you’ns.
And I am a Damn Yankee, thank you - I moved here!
Listen, all y’all of yous guys don’t know whatcha got 'dere.
. . . that’s all I got.
But yeah, that Bored Reeder thing was interesting. I once googled my real name (before I got married), and found that:
A) I build custom Mustangs
B) I’m a porn star
C) At one point, I developed the Internet back in the '60s.
Tripler
Chicks dig me for my vacuum tubes, yo.
:eek:
There’s an anti-me out there? A regular poster on www.cardiofiles.net with the exact same username!
:eek:
It’s got to be some kind of twisted alternate universe thing!
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
:eek:
There’s an anti-me out there? A regular poster on www.cardiofiles.net with the exact same username!
:eek:
It’s got to be some kind of twisted alternate universe thing!
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He probably has a Goatee
…
Unless you do?
Nope. No goatee here. Either clean shaven, a bit of stubble, or the occaisional foray into growing a Great Cossack Beard. But never any attempt for a goatee.
ETA: I’m on page three of the results, so far, and that’s the ONLY OtakuLoki that’s not me.
Holy cow - there are real live people (at least two of 'em) out there with my user name as their REAL NAME. I just picked it because it’s an anagram of my real name, and it sounds like a porn star.
Can you imagine going through life with that as your actual name?
prods google
Huh. EQ has really dropped, hasn’t it?
[QUOTE=lizardling]
prods google
Huh. EQ has really dropped, hasn’t it?
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Que?