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my20cworth t1_iya0aza wrote

Reply to comment by somewhatfriendlyuser in Russia steals almost 900 tons of grain in Luhansk Oblast by sviterochec

What is Ya'll. Do you mean "you all" and who is you all. And how do you know that I or us have "never cared to pay attention".

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joandidioff t1_iybcd4n wrote

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%27all

Here you go, dullard. Also, learn to punctuate.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_iybceha wrote

Y'all

>Y'all (pronounced yawl) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern American English, with which it is most frequently associated, though it also appears in some other English varieties, including African-American English and South African Indian English. It is usually used as a plural second-person pronoun, but whether it is exclusively plural is a perennial subject of discussion.

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Christylian t1_iycnjsx wrote

As a British person who laments the lack of a clear second-person plural pronoun in the English language, I find y'all to be the most adequate thing to use. It still feels foreign to say though. Having both singular and plural pronouns be "you" is stupid, especially when other romance languages have solved this problem millennia ago.

In an unrelated note, you come across as an unrepentantly annoying pedant just from those short sentences.

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