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keesan
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response 102 of 239:
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Nov 18 02:55 UTC 2003 |
Is the tray for paper at the back or at bottom front? Jim put it in back.
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jep
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response 103 of 239:
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Nov 18 03:39 UTC 2003 |
As I recall, it could be put in either way.
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twenex
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response 104 of 239:
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Nov 20 01:39 UTC 2003 |
What's with this accursed trend of putting the word "all"
in a sentence in places where it makes no sense at all
(forgive the pun), as in:
"Who all is in this room?"
"What all are you doing tonight?"
I don't know if anyone has heard the phrase "syntactic
sugar" before, but this all strikes me as syntactic
excrement.
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rcurl
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response 105 of 239:
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Nov 20 01:51 UTC 2003 |
Who all has been doing that?
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happyboy
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response 106 of 239:
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Nov 20 01:52 UTC 2003 |
all y'all has too mudge time on yore hands.
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twenex
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response 107 of 239:
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Nov 20 01:57 UTC 2003 |
This all may be true.
"Y'all", of course, is excluded because it is the
(informal) plural of singular "you", a distinction found
so important that just about all european languages retain
it.
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remmers
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response 108 of 239:
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Nov 20 02:43 UTC 2003 |
As in the well-known French saying, "Y'all come back now,
s'il vous plait."
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willcome
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response 109 of 239:
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Nov 20 03:41 UTC 2003 |
They always shorten that to SVP, though.
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davel
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response 110 of 239:
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Nov 20 13:46 UTC 2003 |
Y'all haven't been around enough southerners. "Y'all" is not necessarily
plural, in common usage. Usually but not always.
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tpryan
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response 111 of 239:
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Nov 20 13:52 UTC 2003 |
Didn't Jeff Foxworthy say that 'yupto' is a southern word?
What'cha yupto?
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gull
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response 112 of 239:
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Nov 20 14:57 UTC 2003 |
"Y'all" can be singular.
"All y'all" is always plural. ;>
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micklpkl
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response 113 of 239:
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Nov 20 15:06 UTC 2003 |
<cringes, and wonders what type of "southerner" y'all have been hearing>
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micklpkl
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response 114 of 239:
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Nov 20 15:43 UTC 2003 |
Oh, I need to lighten up, don't I? :)
In the serendipity department, I discovered this quote from Kinky
Friedman while doing some web-based research:
"Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is
plural possessive."
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gull
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response 115 of 239:
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Nov 20 15:44 UTC 2003 |
That must be where I was remembering it from. :>
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mynxcat
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response 116 of 239:
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Nov 20 16:16 UTC 2003 |
That "You all" and "What all" is usually what I've heard Indians say.
I've not heard any Americans use that, but maybe I wasn't paying
attention
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jep
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response 117 of 239:
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Nov 20 18:28 UTC 2003 |
My brother's wife is from Arkansas. If you took away "y'all" and "you
all" from her speech, she would be unable to communicate.
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happyboy
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response 118 of 239:
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Nov 20 19:24 UTC 2003 |
are you sure?
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twenex
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response 119 of 239:
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Nov 20 21:12 UTC 2003 |
Thank all y'all for correcting me.
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keesan
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response 120 of 239:
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Nov 21 04:01 UTC 2003 |
Is there such a thing as a VESA 2.0 video driver for Win98? We have a
computer with SiS onboard video (COmpaq Presario) for which we cannot find
a video driver. Windows decided to call it plain PCI VGA. (We found the
driver for the onboard sound for that computer).
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albaugh
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response 121 of 239:
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Nov 21 18:04 UTC 2003 |
"Unfortunately" English has no separate word (pronoun) for second person
plural, so people (especially south of the Mason-Dixon line) compensate.
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rcurl
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response 122 of 239:
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Nov 21 18:13 UTC 2003 |
We do use "you". For example, in speaking to a group, I feel no hesitancy
is saying "you" to refer to a whole group, but some must feel they have to
add "all" to encompass the group. Do people in the south feel it not
enough to look at a group and use just "you"? How did that get started?
Does it come from a normal declension in another language?
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twenex
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response 123 of 239:
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Nov 21 18:17 UTC 2003 |
In the north (of England) we use "you's"
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keesan
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response 124 of 239:
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Nov 22 00:08 UTC 2003 |
We found the Compaq's video driver by looking at the number on the video chip
instead of the numbers produced by diagnostic programs. It works.
Why does Windows not have VESA drivers????
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drew
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response 125 of 239:
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Nov 24 07:30 UTC 2003 |
Will a PC2700 DDR RAM chip work on a motherboard for which is specified
DRAM Access Time: 2.5V Unbuffered DDR 200/266 MHz Type required ?
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willcome
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response 126 of 239:
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Nov 27 07:32 UTC 2003 |
Will a 27 year old whore work whore way through Hollywood?
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