• funny
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    162 years ago

    Your face when you go to the store to buy groceries, only to find that the prices have increased again.

    • don
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      112 years ago

      It’s for when you’re referring to more people than every single person that you’re referring to.

      See: ATM machine, a machine that dispenses automated teller machines; PIN number, the number that must be used in order to use a personal identification number; NIC card, a network interface card that a NIC uses to access a network interface.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Not sure what the correct way to write the contraction is, but I assumed it was short for ‘all of you will’ when used in this context

        • don
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          22 years ago

          To be clear, we are picking apart common vernacular and lingo, but generally, “y’all” is a contraction of “you all”, making “all (of) you all” rather redundant, but most probably used for emphasis.

          • no bananaOP
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            22 years ago

            Ding ding ding it was an entirely meaningless albeit intentional turn of phrase

      • Deebster
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        42 years ago

        I love that this is both amusing and completely factual.

        I’m a Brit so it’s not something I can use without sounding odd, but y’all’s my favourite thing to come out of American English since ok.

      • no bananaOP
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        52 years ago

        I think people would’ve felt it more natural if I wrote “all of y’all” instead, but I thought the “of” was unnecessary.

        • flicker
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          52 years ago

          But you wrote the slang correctly! Unfamiliarity with the slang is an opportunity to educate about our language.

          (Source; we been sayin’ all y’all since before y’all non-Southerners were even sayin’ y’all.)

          • no bananaOP
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            12 years ago

            I know, but as someone who has English as a second language I am also aware of the fact that “all y’all” won’t necessarily make sense to people lol

            • flicker
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              22 years ago

              If you’re practicing a localized dialect, and you are, there will be slang that doesn’t make sense to some. All of y’all would sound extremely weird to many people from the American south.

              • no bananaOP
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                12 years ago

                Oh totally. My explanation was more for the benefit of those like me but who aren’t familiar with the expression.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I’m Philly and we like to say you’s guys’es instead of y’all and we’ll say all’s you’s guys’es for all y’all . And jawn for that thing that can’t remember the word for but you know what I’m talking about because of the context of what I’m saying. You’s guys’s know what I’m saying.