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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 1:48:59 PM
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WhiteRoseBlessings
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Is this a correct version of a good blessing-out?
"I swanny, I tode you and tode you not to run with them flapjacks. And there you go, running with them, and you fell. You ain't just skint up your knee you're so worried about, but you ruint the tin foil wrapping. How'm I going to get the new ones I gotta make now to your sister's house and you knowing how sick she is. You jist get your cryin' self up and take her some of the okry and maters we had last night. They're in a bowl. And you jist splain your reckless self to her so's she'll know it weren't me what ruint that mess of flapjacks I promised her. Now, you get yourself going, or I'll stripe that sassy bottom of yourn till you know whut a good stripin' is!"
Go, Abiyah, go!!!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 1:53:05 PM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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Yeah.
If i'm talking to one person I say, Hey You!
If more than one, Hey Y'all!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 9:58:42 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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One thing, though, Abiyah . . . you absolutely MUST incorporate the use of the word, "y'all" into your vocabulary (and remember, "y'all" is the plural of "you all" . . . use it correctly).
I never figured out the "y'all" thang, so I never used it. A little bit too intricate for this brain, then it changed sometimes with the crossing of a state line! And I was under the impression that "You'uns" was a Kentuckyism. It's not?
So is this correct for second person singular? You
Correct for second person, two? Y'all
Correct for second person, more than two? Either you all or y'alls
And rats! I was going to rewrite my flapjack thingy, but I don't know how to use y'all in it correctly!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 10:09:49 PM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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Nope, no S on y'all. Just y'all.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/11/2008 9:28:10 AM
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Y'all is simply a contraction of "you all", isn't it? Used in place of "all of you" or "you guys", something like that, right?
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/11/2008 6:41:22 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Is y'all ever properly used when speaking to one person? I remember it being done, and this is part of what confuses me. For example, in my attempt to speak southern to one child here:
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I swanny, I tode y'all and tode y'all not to run with them flapjacks.
Also, does swanny have anything to do with a river, and is there really a Swanny River?
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/11/2008 11:53:00 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Ah! Okay! When I went to school there, we sang a lot of Stephen Foster songs in music class. I had never heard them before moving there. One that I remember learning in school, probably not written by Foster , had one verse that went:
Oh, Cindy got religion
She'd had it once before
But when she heard that banjo play
She was the first one on the floor
refrain:
Get along home Cindy Cindy
Get along home Cindy Cindy
Get along home Cindy Cindy
I'll marry you some day
And another I learned there that I don't remember so well, but I liked it:
Shoo, fly, don't bother me
Shoo, fly, don't bother me
Shoo, fly, don't bother me
'Cause I belong to Company G.
And I remember Shoo Fly Pie! I have threatened to make it for many years but haven't yet. I must!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 8:09:58 AM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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You is the same when it goes into plurals.
You- one
You- two
You- 3 or more.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 8:46:10 AM
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Nope, no S on y'all. Just y'all.
If you want to make sure there's no question that you are talking to a group, you can use, "All y'all!"
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 9:05:00 AM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Ah! Yes! I had forgotten about "all y'all."
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 4:15:59 PM
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And then there's "wallback" and "lilwallback"...
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 10:55:03 PM
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swan·ny (swn)
intr.v. Chiefly Southern U.S.
To declare; swear. Used in the phrase I swanny as an interjection.
It's hard for me to remember a conversation between my grandma and grandpa that didn't have him saying this to grandma.
"Well, I swanny Blanche, you beat all I ever did see".
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 11:07:10 PM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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I got a word.
sho
IE: It sho' is quiet 'round here tonight.
sho-sure
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/12/2008 11:13:03 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Oh, this stuff's great!
I have a very northern accent, a very common one -- very ordinary, very unremarkable. But give me five minutes with a Minnesotan or a Wisconsinite, and I fall right back into that accent. I hardly ever am around southerners, because I never get to see my relatives from the South, but when I did, I would fall right into that within minutes, too! I am very susceptible to both accents.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, there are things that you will only be able to learn by the weakest among us, and when you snuff them out, you are the one that loses." ~~Gianna Jesson, 1977 LA, CA, saline abortion survivor
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