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Anyone who says y'all that isn't a bona fide southerner
- Y'all trippinduckseason
- stoplying y'allcapn_ron
- As a bona fide, y'all good.garbage
- I work with a lot of people in Atlanta. "All y'all" is quite common. Bona fide or not, that's just illiterate.CyBrainX
- It's ignorant to assume that somebody who says "y'all" is illiterate. Wittgenstein termed such language as "familienahnlichkeit... essentially a family language.garbage
- Regional patois get a roasting, and especially a southern one. I have a heavy southern accent and when I leave it on I might as well be speaking..garbage
- ..a different language. But I can turn it off when need be, specifically for that bias. I say y'all because I've always said y'all.garbage
- I don't think those people are illiterate. I think the phrase "all y'all" is illiterate word salad.CyBrainX
- Eh, your take on the phrase predisposes you to an understandable false sense of etymological superiority.garbage
- (I spent years studying literature and regional linguistics, let me have my fun)garbage
- @ garbage, re: 'I have a heavy southern accent'
Huh. TIL. I would not have imagined this with you _at all_!Continuity - I'm not claiming any etymological superiority. I grew up in NY. The local accent is terrible. If people want to call out my bad phrases and mispronunciations...CyBrainX
- Then, I'm open to fixing myself.CyBrainX
- lol I wasn't taking offense. Born and bred in Birmingham. Just not every southerner is illiterate, only most of them.garbage
- I've been told that I have the most southern accent ever, and also get "wait, you're from the south?"garbage