|-----Original Message----- |From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org |[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Gabe Turner |Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 8:01 AM |To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org |Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux Partitions | | |> I personally think "y'all" is a useful linguistic construct, which |> otherwise is lacking from the English language. the German 'ihr' means |> roughly the same thing as "y'all", and they use it quite a bit. |> I fail to see why English should lack a good term for "all of you", |> when other languages have it. | |English does have a term for 'all of you': 'you'. 'You' is both plural and |singular, depending on the context it's used in. 'ihr' auf Englisch is |'you'. Just playing the devil's advocate here :) I personally prefer |'y'all' as well. Although, it sounds strange when said out loud, IMO. | |Gabe |-- The problem is that 20th century English dropped the you singular-- thou/thee/thine and kept only the plural "you" for both singular and plural. If you are really interested, there is a dual version (i.e., two people), but I can't remember it anymore...check Oxford English Dictionary. Who said that 6+ years of graduate study in Ancient Mediterranean languages wasn't applicable to computers :) Of course, there is always the Indiana "you'uns" or the Michigan "yous guys" but generally upper Midwesterners prefer to say "you guys" instead of "y'all" (which, incidentally, is NOT singular as I was informed when I first moved to Kentucky) James Spinti jspinti at dartdist.com 952-368-3278 x396 fax 952-368-3255