Heard on The Judges II

[Wilson Gray]

Oddly enough, I'm most accustomed to hearing "all ya'll" in the
expression, "Fuck all y'all!"

-Wilson

On 3/24/08, Bradley A. Esparza <baesparza at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  I use 'you all' to distinguish in online forums, but strangely not 'y'all',
>  whereas I use contractions quite freely. I do use 'all y'all' in speech, but
>  not 'y'all' as much.
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>  On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > A mid-twenty-ish black woman, reads an excerpt from a letter written
>  > to her by a former friend. The friend, as quoted, twice uses "y'all."
>  >
>  > I find this surprising. I use "y'all" in speech all the time, when
>  > speaking to other black people, but I use it in writing only whin I be
>  > funnin' wit chawl. I don't use "y'all" even when writing to members of
>  > my family and I don't even feel comfortable using "you-all" in
>  > correspondence, except as a joke.
>  >
>  > I guess that young folk aren't as tense about sounding cullud as us
>  > older heads.
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>  > -Wilson
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>  > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>  > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>  > -Sam'l Clemens
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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