• flicker@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    But you wrote the slang correctly! Unfamiliarity with the slang is an opportunity to educate about our language.

    (Source; we been sayin’ all y’all since before y’all non-Southerners were even sayin’ y’all.)

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      1 year ago

      I know, but as someone who has English as a second language I am also aware of the fact that “all y’all” won’t necessarily make sense to people lol

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        1 year ago

        If you’re practicing a localized dialect, and you are, there will be slang that doesn’t make sense to some. All of y’all would sound extremely weird to many people from the American south.

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          1 year ago

          Oh totally. My explanation was more for the benefit of those like me but who aren’t familiar with the expression.