Do we need the SR-71?

"Dan Luke" wrote:


"alexy" wrote:
This affectation is brought to you by the same people
who use "y'all" in the singular when trying to imitate an
accent from the US South.

Yup, it's a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood never gets it right.

It's a "hyper-ruralism," an error caused by trying too hard to sound
country, the opposite of another pet peeve of mine, the "he and I"
hyperurbanism, as in "Jane took John and I to dinner."

Yikes! I think I just heard fingernails scraping across a chalk board!
(Guess I'm dating myself thereg.)
--
Alex
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

"alexy" wrote:
This affectation is brought to you by the same people
who use "y'all" in the singular when trying to imitate an
accent from the US South.

Yup, it's a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood never gets it right.

It's a "hyper-ruralism," an error caused by trying too hard to sound
country, the opposite of another pet peeve of mine, the "he and I"
hyperurbanism, as in "Jane took John and I to dinner."
--


I use the 'he and I' all the time. Never thought *that* would be anyone's
pet peeve!

What other way is there to say it? I honestly can't imagine speaking any
other way.

(I did grow up in Manhattan)

Dan

Here's one for you )

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THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID


Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?



On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:45:49 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


"alexy" wrote:
This affectation is brought to you by the same people
who use "y'all" in the singular when trying to imitate an
accent from the US South.

Yup, it's a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood never gets it right.

It's a "hyper-ruralism," an error caused by trying too hard to sound
country, the opposite of another pet peeve of mine, the "he and I"
hyperurbanism, as in "Jane took John and I to dinner."

"alexy" wrote in message
...
David CL Francis wrote:

On Sun, 9 May 2004 at 03:44:29 in message
,
Orval Fairbairn wrote:

Simply put, we don't need supersonic speeds to loiter over terrorist hot
spots. Their weapons are short-ranged, so an armed TR-2 or Global Hawk
or something else that has a high loiter time will do the job, as the
British say, "spiffily."

I am British but, to the best of my knowledge, I have never said
'spiffily' in my entire life. (Except after reading your message - just
to try what it might sound like.)

You need to watch more Hollywood movies to learn how to affect a
British accent! g

This affectation is brought to you by the same people who use "y'all"
in the singular when trying to imitate an accent from the US South.
--
Alex

Sorry Alex,

But the boys I work with on the NASCAR tour say:

"Y'All" is singular...

"All Y'All" is plural...

Jay Beckman
Student Pilot - KCHD
18.6 Hrs
Freelance Technician
NASCAR on FOX/NBC

"Jay Beckman" wrote:

"alexy" wrote in message
.. .
David CL Francis wrote:

On Sun, 9 May 2004 at 03:44:29 in message
,
Orval Fairbairn wrote:

Simply put, we don't need supersonic speeds to loiter over terrorist hot
spots. Their weapons are short-ranged, so an armed TR-2 or Global Hawk
or something else that has a high loiter time will do the job, as the
British say, "spiffily."

I am British but, to the best of my knowledge, I have never said
'spiffily' in my entire life. (Except after reading your message - just
to try what it might sound like.)

You need to watch more Hollywood movies to learn how to affect a
British accent! g

This affectation is brought to you by the same people who use "y'all"
in the singular when trying to imitate an accent from the US South.
--
Alex

Sorry Alex,

But the boys I work with on the NASCAR tour say:

"Y'All" is singular...

"All Y'All" is plural...

Jay Beckman
Student Pilot - KCHD

Never heard that in my 50+ years in the south. But I don't run with
the NASCAR crowd. Maybe it's unique to them.
18.6 Hrs
Freelance Technician
NASCAR on FOX/NBC


--
Alex
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Jay Beckman wrote:

But the boys I work with on the NASCAR tour say:

"Y'All" is singular...

"All Y'All" is plural...

They're playing tricks on the Yankee.

George Patterson
I childproofed my house, but they *still* get in.

"Jay Beckman" wrote:

"Y'All" is singular...

"All Y'All" is plural...

Baloney. No native Southern speaker uses ya'll in the singular unless
he's been corrupted. "All ya'll" is a redundancy for emphasis, common
in Southern speech.

"Ya'll" is a perfectly good word, IMO, that makes up for the lack of a
distinct second person pleural pronoun in English. It's time everyone
adopted it and used it properly!
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

This affectation is brought to you by the same people who use "y'all"
in the singular when trying to imitate an accent from the US South.
--

I know of at least one northerner who learned "y'all" when she moved to GA and
it was singular as "all y'all" was the plural in that region.

Margy

Margy Natalie wrote:



This affectation is brought to you by the same people who use "y'all"
in the singular when trying to imitate an accent from the US South.
--

I know of at least one northerner who learned "y'all" when she moved to GA and
it was singular as "all y'all" was the plural in that region.

Someone was pulling her leg.

Alex (18 years in Birmingham, 4 in Memphis, and 24 in Atlanta, and
never once heard y'all as singular, except by people trying to fake a
Southern accent)

--
Alex
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Margy Natalie wrote:

I know of at least one northerner who learned "y'all" when she moved to GA and
it was singular as "all y'all" was the plural in that region.

Well, it wasn't in Atlanta during the nine years I lived there.

George Patterson
I childproofed my house, but they *still* get in.