• merc
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    1 个月前

    In parts of the south “y’all” is singular. “All y’all” is plural.

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        1 个月前

        “Would ya’ll like a soda?” Vs. “Would all ya’ll like a soda?” - one of these means everyone shares one soda, the other means each person gets their own - but I don’t know which is which :O

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          1 个月前

          You misspelled coke. Nobody says “soda” in the south, coke covers that. You have sprite coke, root beer coke, etc.

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          29 天前

          “Would y’all like a coke?”

          “Would all y’all like cokes?”

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      As a super non-Southern USA guy, anytime I drop a “y’all” into convo, my Southerner friends say I’m not doing it right because I simply substitute all “you” instances with “y’all”.

      I guess these friends don’t come from the singular-y’all part of the South.