Date: 22 May 2003 15:07:42 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grammar (was Re: Fwd: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-laden treatise on SCO vs. IBM) Message-ID: <2qel2qski9.l2q@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200305221613.h4MGDNLR016491@dungeon.home> References: <p05200f42baf03c5204ce@[192.168.254.205]> <20030520203225.GA30587@thyrsus.com> <xxbrxxw0b0.rxx@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305202116560.9778@monet.psys.org> <200305221613.h4MGDNLR016491@dungeon.home>
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> >You, not "y'all". Please. > > No! No! It is merely artistic flair! Not "merely", but yeah, I find "you all" too stilted or something. I think that the Southernism should be acceptable in informal writing, to avoid the need to make the sentence longer with extra words that would tend to detract from the point being made. "You" wouldn't have worked because it was ambiguous. The alternative was probably something like "you and your fellow copyleftists". But it seems that the contraction detracts from the point too, in some minds. Hmmmm.
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