Tuesday, January 08, 2008

elegance

posited: "Y'all" and "y'all's" are infinitely more elegant than "you guys" and "you guys's"

3 comments:

byron smith said...

What about the traditional plural second person pronoun: you?

Benjamin Ady said...

Bryon,

It's .... operationally .... awkward. I mean it just doesn't work super well for me--it causes a bit of a mental/verbal stumble. Now why is that?

byron smith said...

Wow, that's quite interesting (from a linguistic POV). Does Megan have the same experience?