Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]

[Benjamin Barrett]

I would argue that the singular-plural distinction and conjugative verbs are horrible unnecessary complications, but _sadly_, we must put up with them :)

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Your guys's side < your guys' side < your side X you guys's side < you
> guys' side?
>
> The unnecessarily-complicared derivation doesn't work in my dialect,
> wherein a simple "y'all's side" suffices.
>
> Which is not to claim that, e.g. "your all's side" is non-occurrent.
>
> Sadly.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
>
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>> "your guys's side" gets 60 hits on Google. I don't personally see anything
>> wrong or odd about it. I guess you could say "y'all's side," but that
>> doesn't work in my dialect....
>>
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Seattle, WA
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As opposed to the simpler, "on _your_ side." Yes, I know that this
>>> phenomenon - or should that be "phenomena"? - isn't new. But, WTF?
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Wilson
>>

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