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[GlyphGryph]

That last example (representative of a group) I've heard from at least one of my relatives/friends. (Virginia semi-rural and Texas urban). But I think that's pretty standard, since I know New Englander's who would use the (significantly more rude) "you people" in the same situation.

[Karnewarrior]

That last example (representative of a group) I've heard from at least one of my relatives/friends. (Virginia semi-rural and Texas urban). But I think that's pretty standard, since I know New Englander's who would use the (significantly more rude) "you people" in the same situation.

Whadda you mean, "You people?"

I could think of a thousand things worse than that which could be casually dropped in a conversation without nearly as much anger. People are weird.

By the way, you humans need to stop using so many confusing words. It's quite strange.

[RedKing]

Oh, "you people" has its use down here too. Usually with racial/class connotations. Definitely something you use to denote group endogeny/exogeny (i.e. you are one of those people, and I'm not). And it has such a history of being used condescendingly towards blacks that you can start a good fight just by using the phrase "you people". 

I thought about it some more, and I think I figured out the whole "y'all as singular" thing. It functions similar to the ba particle in Mandarin, in that you use it to 'soften' a sentence (by referring to the person in the plural, you're not specifically referring to them, even though from context you're totally referring to them).

Examples:
(trying to tell someone to leave without further provoking them): "Y'all just might want to turn around and walk out, afore this gets ugly."

(consoling someone without being too..."clingy"): "Y'all gonna be okay?"




EDIT: Incidentally, this is reminding me of a long-shelved conlang project I had, where the "elder race" had to come up with indirect pronouns, because their power was such that the very act of speaking changed the world. So they developed a set of 4th-person pronouns (sort of a "he/she/it who shall not be named" thing), and lots of grammatical fictions like this so they could talk about someone without actually affecting them. Yay for linguistic nerdism! 

[Loud Whispers]

Urgle blurgle, that moment you realize you play too much not enough DF happened to me today.

"Ladidada it's a lectern ble ble babel fish ble ble in the shape of an eagle, to signify spreading the RIGHTEOUS word of JEBUS!!!"

"It's a Peregrine Falcon."

(It was a morning, I was thinking my thoughts out loud :d)

"..."

":O"

""

"D:"

"o-o"

[RedKing]

Apparently all this dialectual dialectic must've cause my own natural accent to come bursting out, because as my boss was just headed out the door, I leaned over and asked him, "Y'out?" (are you out?)

He's from the NC mountains, and even he paused and stared at me for several seconds trying to figure out what the hell I had just said. 

While I'm not the biggest fan of the "redneck comedians", I do love Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary routine, because it's so goddamn accurate.

[Nadaka]

Where I come from the singular of yall is a one or two vowels concatenated onto a nearby word.

Yall wanna head on over by the tractor pull?

Yonktoo head on over by the tractor pull?

Dont yall like Merl Haggart?

Doncha like Merl Haggart?

[Lord Dullard]

I created a Chrono Trigger station on Pandora because I liked some of the instrumental music it turns up, and it's good background noise.

After a while, it put this on.

WTF, Pandora? I mean, I can maybe imagine Lavos listening to this. If he has terrible taste in music...

[kaijyuu]

What'ch'all talkin' 'bout?

[Descan]

Porn. Probably. I've only been half paying attention. Porn is probably a safe bet.

[Karnewarrior]

What'ch'all talkin' 'bout?

Reednaecks.

Spoiler: english (click to show/hide)

Good folk of rural origin

Thems got weird akysence and all 'bout wherein' they's comin' from and we's just discussin' them intellmalectual meritudes of the goo' ol' boy dia-lecht an' all that sorta' buzzin'. Y'all mustn' be all hatin on my people, even seein's they's wearin' rebel flags an' ain't got no type o' idear thar 'bouts what they's be really sayin' an' all. They's just iggorant. Why I's just talkin'a one terday an' he told me he said "boy I ain't know what this flag be 'bout but the souf AMERICAS" which just aint got no sense innit.

Spoiler: English (click to show/hide)

 They do have such odd accents, deriving from their friendly locale and origin of linguistic prowess. We were simply discussing how such dirivitives of the english tongue may be appropriated in a correct grammatical context. Please do forgive these people, as their ignorance often leads to them flying banners of which they have forgotten the meanings. Perchance, I spoke with one individual today, who told me in the deepest confidence that he had no idea what it stood for and assumed it was a group flag for the southern United States of America, which is simply preposterous.

Oh, "you people" has its use down here too. Usually with racial/class connotations.

No, it was a Tropic Thunder Reference that I totally butchered but forgot to cut out.

Well, maybe someone learned something.

Porn. Probably. I've only been half paying attention. Porn is probably a safe bet.

Porn is always a safe bet.

Lots of money in porn. Secure job too, as a director.

[bukitodinos]

i just started playing "i wanna be the guy"

WHY DO APPLES. APPLES OF ALL THINGS KILL HIM!!??

GRRRRRRAAAAAHHHHHH

[kaijyuu]

Ah, I love that game. I found the repetitive nature incredibly relaxing.

[fqllve]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that makes you the guy.

[Urist Imiknorris]

WHY DO APPLES. APPLES OF ALL THINGS KILL HIM!!??

They're more like giant cherries.

[kaijyuu]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that makes you the guy.

After ~2200 deaths, yes, I became the guy.