A letter from Sal
on March 28, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: Mother Knows Worst
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
Both Sal and Head Alien II are left-handed, so this ruse was honestly bulletproof.
Both Sal and Head Alien II are left-handed, so this ruse was honestly bulletproof.
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I get “ah” but why *wouldn’t* someone write “y’all”, c’mon Joyce
It’s a perfectly valid contraction.
Even as a northern, I find the idea that “you” is supposed to function for all singular and plural uses to be absurd. The southern contradiction of You All to indicate a group you is a far better linguistic solution.
Y’all has become a lot more widespread over the last few decades. I’m pretty sure I didn’t even know it existed back then, and now I use it myself.
For a long time I considered “y’all” to be dialect I didn’t want to evoke, but in the last few years it’s entered my vocabulary as a great non-gendered alternative to “you guys”. For the same reasons, “folks”.
French and Spanish have plural “you” forms. My daughter’s teacher specifically used “y’all” as the translation for those forms, and this was in California. Clarifies things greatly.
you = usted
y’all = ustedes
My high school Latin teacher did the same.
But… you /is/ the plural version. Thou is the singular. If anything that’s why Y’all doesn’t make sense!
Not that I have anything against y’all. I just don’t agree with your logic.
Dost thou use ‘thou’ in everyday speech as the second-person singular pronoun? If so, what reaction dost thou get?
Maybe that’s where “youse” (as in “youse guys”) came from?
Honestly, I can’t imagine Sal not writing it out.
Until that last panel, I was with you, but now I’m wondering if the letter is a forgery.
I write y’all out all the time in text messages – and I’m from the midwest
“You do know you don’t need to transcribe your accent?”
“Transcribe my what now?”
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0305.html
I actually had to write out a bunch of “y’all”s and “ah”s when introducing a super-Southern (sounding) character for something I was writing. Got annoying after a while.
People still write letters and send them to other people these days?
In those days, sure.