I may have posted this before, I’m not sure, but I feel the need to share it anew.
I had an irate customer at work who had a complaint, and wished to inquire if I intended to act upon her complaint. So she said, “Is you or is you ain’t gonna do something about this?”
Can you top that?
mmm
I was once going out for lunch with some coworkers, and we were deciding who would drive. One of them asked, “How far are yous’s guys’s cars?” When we all laughed, she corrected herself by asking, “How far are the cars of yous’s guys?”
This is exactly what I thought of when I heard her (the version by Joe Jackson, though).
mmm
These people would have a ‘ruff’ time if they joined the dope.
disclaimer: me aint’s perfect eider.
Louis Jordan, here. 
youse is a plural used by some ethic groups, y’all. i suppose that then is a possessive plural form.
Is English this persons first language?
I hope so. It ain’t as funny if it ain’t isn’t.
Reminds me of a great line from O Brother Where Art Thou?: “Is you is, or is you ain’t my constitchancy!?”
There was a lot of music in that, including the guy who looked like Robert Johnson.
I understand the question completely.
I heard an Irish woman in Dublin ask, in the cinema, “where do the manager be?”
Yes.
I never claimed that I did not understand it.
mmm
I sure is ain’t not gonna fail to do nothin’.
The dash don’t be silent!
Jive ass fools don’t got no brains anyhow.
Al Haig once substituted “at this juncture of maturization” for “now”, and he was next in line for the presidency. Well, according to him.
I get stabby over “a friend of mine’s parents” - why not “my friend’s parents” or “the parents of my friend”??
And then there’s “your guys’s” as in “Can I take your guys’s drink order?” Has the language changed? Is “your” no longer acceptable as a plural? When I’m Queen of the World, I will call for immediate beheading of anyone who says “you guys” when a nice plural “you” will suffice. grrrrrrrr
I used to drive by a junk yard on my way to work that had a shrimp boat with the words “four seale” (for sale) spray painted on it in letters six feet high. I would spend a few minutes imagining the person behind those words.
Oh, here’s the required link to “How is Babby Formed?” www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf
