[NewMusic] y'all poopoganda

[Matthew Goodheart]

On May 9, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> Since college, it has generally bugged me when non-Southerners say  
> "y'all" -

Hmmm, isn't it also "African American Vernacular English"? It embedded  
itself in my newspeak from hanging out with jazz musicians in the  
early 90's who were of the appropriate vernacular demographic- which  
I'll cop to being a totally bogus reason to use it: along with "bad"  
and "cat", which sometimes emerge unbidden from the id (thereby  
proving I am not only a poser, but a spineless parrot.)

I'm thinking of trying to switch to "yous."



>
> my college roommate was from Tennessee and she said "y'all" and that  
> was
> endearing. When the dude downstairs from New Jersey said it, it was
> annoying. Ditto for the housemates from Yankeeland, er, New England.

Matthew Goodheart
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