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From: williamb@netcom.com (Richard Belcher)
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 11:04:33 GMT
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Clifton T. Sharp (clifto@indep1.chi.il.us) wrote:
: In article <bert-1302961749040001@pm199.sonic.net> bert@sonic.net (Bert Clanton) writes:
: >As a fellow Seminole (BA Math 1956) I'm very gratified to see another
: >native striving tp preserve the purity of Southernese against the ignorant
: >attacks of well-meaning but credulous Yankees.

: And I reiterate (mostly in the hope that one of these articles will
: make it to another system!) that the usage of "How are y'all doing
: today?" from one person to one other person is widespread and popular
: throughout the South.
 But don't you realize whenever a person makes a general greeting like 
that they are including the person's kin too. It's impolite in the south 
to not include ones family. :) Most of my family is from around the 
Louisville area and whenever they would say how y'all doing I've always 
had the feeling my family was included in the greeting to. Northerners 
just don't "get" this sense of it, the unmentioned others.
: I know it's a 
_single_ exception, but Gayle said "never"...

: -- 
:    Cliff Sharp                  There are days when no matter which
:      WA9PDM                      way you spit, it's upwind.
:   clifto@indep1.chi.il.us       --The First Law of Reality
-- 
  People just don't seem to gavotte and mazurka with the spirit and grace 
that they used to.
                                          Richard Belcher
                                          williamb@netcom.com

