“Y’all” itself is already plural. Pluralizing in triplicate is in accordance with SH department regulations Section 17, Subsection (d), Paragraph 14, Bullet 8.
“Y’all” is singular, plural, posessive, and any other thing you want it to be, depending on the speaker. I grew up using it (I’m a Deep South native with ancestors who’re on the ship’s manifests in Savannah GA dating back to 1733) and it gets used in every imaginable way throughout the region. And EVERY area claims that their way of using it is absolutely right (which it is, for their area.) Just because the Urban Dictionary says it’s one way, it doesn’t have to be and it isn’t. Language is fluid, changing, and a total bastard. :3
Seconding Ysabet. In another context, I’d be arguing about the One True Way to properly use y’all, but I’ll limit myself to STATING that it’s my belief that “y’all” should be used in exactly one context: second person plural, non-possessive. All of my fellow Southerners in other areas who say otherwise are… *sigh* using equally legitimate if different definition.
Which is why I won’t say decidedly that “all y’alls” is incorrect. I WILL say that I’m much, much happier about the fact that “y’all” is being used at all than I am concerned about whether it’s being used correctly here. As a child of Midwestern transplants, I’ve never gotten much into Southern pride, but I firmly believe that “y’all” needs to enter usage throughout the English language. Such an awesome word.
Right?
Nashville and surrounding *tend to* use “y’all” to refer to a small, fairly defined group, or a group sharing a characteristic . “All Y’all!” is an intensified version, meaning either a looser group, or an intensification of the thing that is being directed at the group. E.g. “Y’all can go to hell.” (can be read straight or as a joke) vs “*ALL* y’all can go to hell!” which would (usually!) be “no really, you and all your friends can go F*)# yourselves, you jackwagons.”
Well, what he said was “all y’alls,” which sometimes gets used as the second-person plural object of a preposition, the way Nick uses it here. Mell uses it the same way in this Narbonic strip (“Holy cheese, I’m dumber’n all y’alls, and I win all the time.”).
tune: “I Am What I Am,” Jerry Herman, La Cage aux Folles, 1983
I know what I am
I’m not your bro . . . I’m not your brony
I don’t give a spam
If I don’t please some one-horned pony
It’s my turn, and I’m gonna be an awesome princess
My turn, and I’m gonna rock that spangly-apse dress
Call me “sir” or “ma’am”
Tell horse and ham: “Back off, I know what I am”
I know what I am
I have a tail and a propeller
When I’m on the ground
I run a babe, but I’m a fella
It’s my life, and I’m just as cute as I am badarse
My choice, how I carry out this Whimsy farce and
Now I gotta go, you both can both blow me, ‘cuz
I knoooooooooow what I am!
Shut up, Mistycorn!
You too, Unity!
You’re not going there,
‘Cause I only care
What I think of me!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
Don’t care if I’m cute
Or tough as a brute,
I am what I am!
I’m gonna say NO
To both of all y’alls!
If both of you thought
That I’m something I’m not,
That’s a truckload of brawls!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
And if you don’t like,
Well, just take a hike!
I am what I am!
Don’t care if you beg!
Don’t care what you want!
Don’t care what you say, what you think I seem …
I’m saying, with pride,
What I am inside …
I am a gynoid-copter-gamer-geek extreme!
Get out of my face!
And go kiss my mess!
Prepare for a shock,
‘Cause I’m gonna rock
That tiara and dress!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
Like Popeye declaims,
Or Yahweh, in flames,
I am what I am!
Wonderful! As a child, I loved Sammy Davis Jr. so much that I literally thought he was the second coming of Christ. And speaking of observant Jews, I think Nick would say “Adonai.”
er. this being a secular context, nick would *never* say that word; it is reserved for prayer. he would probably use the usual workaround, and say “adoshem”.
“Adonai” should never be used directly outside of prayer, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” and all that. Which is weird, because “Adonai” itself means literally “my Lord”, and is the result of that same taboo when applied to the Tetragrammaton itself. Which brings us to “Yaweh”, which is what someone guessed the Tetragrammaton sounded (the actual pronunciation was lost because of aforesaid taboo).
Also, continuing to enjoy what I see as Nick learning to manipulate the language filter; he doesn’t just work around it – I think he’s actually forcing it to substitute more-nearly-appropriate words. That, or Jeff and Shaenon, but it’s funnier for me if it’s Nick.
and what I am is… a geek-human brain removed by a scientist and implanted into an Osprey that is controlling a drone, that will be playing the part of a princess for the purpose of influencing a corporate sentience who is fronted by radioactive animatronicoids in order to… Or, to put it another way, what I am is hopelessly confused on so many undefinable levels that I’ll just charge boldly forward rather than face the ambiguity?
Excuse me, but no.
Nick is not hopelessly confused — Nick is not confused at all.
Nick is a Jewish male helicopter. He has an appendage-drone, and he’s in love with a sane scientist. He works in government social services, and he plays video games. He’s a hacker, and he’s a fan of Whimsy.
Nick is not confused. He knows exactly who in the bully world he is.
He is confusing, yes. But you know what? That’s my problem. That’s your problem. That’s anyone’s problem but his.
And, he’s definitely not a “geek-human brain removed…”. He’s made it clear that he considers himself as a helicopter, and we should respect that just as much as we should respect people’s names or pronouns.
See, I use to care what others thought of me, I was bullied so badly. But in high school, I learned it was okay to be myself, not to care what others think, that there will always be someone more rewarding in all that hate, that cares for me, for who I am. Flaws and all.
That was indeed so badass and so cute. Yay for Nick and self knowledge
now there is a meme in the making.
“One person’s baddass is another person’s cute”
Or a t-shirt. I’d buy that t-shirt.
Also, the reverse phrasing would work, too: “One person’s cute is another person’s badass.” Either way.
Or, as another wise man put it, “You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself; but by changing yourself, you might just change the world.”
Nick is changing into a ballgown. Get ready for the new world.
Go Nick!
Following the Popeye Philosophy will doubtless take Nick very far indeed. ^_^
Y’alls? I thought the plural was “all y’all”.
“Y’all” itself is already plural. Pluralizing in triplicate is in accordance with SH department regulations Section 17, Subsection (d), Paragraph 14, Bullet 8.
Y’all is not plural. You take that back. I think y’alls is the possessive for both singular and plural.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=y%27all
“Y’all” is singular, plural, posessive, and any other thing you want it to be, depending on the speaker. I grew up using it (I’m a Deep South native with ancestors who’re on the ship’s manifests in Savannah GA dating back to 1733) and it gets used in every imaginable way throughout the region. And EVERY area claims that their way of using it is absolutely right (which it is, for their area.) Just because the Urban Dictionary says it’s one way, it doesn’t have to be and it isn’t. Language is fluid, changing, and a total bastard. :3
Seconding Ysabet. In another context, I’d be arguing about the One True Way to properly use y’all, but I’ll limit myself to STATING that it’s my belief that “y’all” should be used in exactly one context: second person plural, non-possessive. All of my fellow Southerners in other areas who say otherwise are… *sigh* using equally legitimate if different definition.
Which is why I won’t say decidedly that “all y’alls” is incorrect. I WILL say that I’m much, much happier about the fact that “y’all” is being used at all than I am concerned about whether it’s being used correctly here. As a child of Midwestern transplants, I’ve never gotten much into Southern pride, but I firmly believe that “y’all” needs to enter usage throughout the English language. Such an awesome word.
Right?
Nashville and surrounding *tend to* use “y’all” to refer to a small, fairly defined group, or a group sharing a characteristic . “All Y’all!” is an intensified version, meaning either a looser group, or an intensification of the thing that is being directed at the group. E.g. “Y’all can go to hell.” (can be read straight or as a joke) vs “*ALL* y’all can go to hell!” which would (usually!) be “no really, you and all your friends can go F*)# yourselves, you jackwagons.”
“Y’alls” here would usually be a possessive.
Y’all really wanna pick a fight about it, try here:
http://english.stackexchange.com/
Well, what he said was “all y’alls,” which sometimes gets used as the second-person plural object of a preposition, the way Nick uses it here. Mell uses it the same way in this Narbonic strip (“Holy cheese, I’m dumber’n all y’alls, and I win all the time.”).
“You can’t please everyone. So you have to please yourself.”
tune: “I Am What I Am,” Jerry Herman, La Cage aux Folles, 1983
I know what I am
I’m not your bro . . . I’m not your brony
I don’t give a spam
If I don’t please some one-horned pony
It’s my turn, and I’m gonna be an awesome princess
My turn, and I’m gonna rock that spangly-apse dress
Call me “sir” or “ma’am”
Tell horse and ham: “Back off, I know what I am”
I know what I am
I have a tail and a propeller
When I’m on the ground
I run a babe, but I’m a fella
It’s my life, and I’m just as cute as I am badarse
My choice, how I carry out this Whimsy farce and
Now I gotta go, you both can both blow me, ‘cuz
I knoooooooooow what I am!
For some reason, I read it to “I am whatever you say I am” by Eminem. Mostly seems to work out, too.
Brava! Well done!
Badass can be cute. Cute is appearance. Badass is attitude.
I parsed that as “Badass is altitude” and thought “well, they picked the right person, then, didn’t they?” ;-]
There’s a trope for that!
(Warning: TV Tropes time-hole. Say good-bye to the next three hours of your life…)
Yess. Feel the power of the cute/badass side.
This is there cute lass becomes cutlass.
“Stew you guys, I’m a helicopter.”
(TUNE: “I Gotta Be Me”, Sammy Davis Jr.)
Shut up, Mistycorn!
You too, Unity!
You’re not going there,
‘Cause I only care
What I think of me!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
Don’t care if I’m cute
Or tough as a brute,
I am what I am!
I’m gonna say NO
To both of all y’alls!
If both of you thought
That I’m something I’m not,
That’s a truckload of brawls!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
And if you don’t like,
Well, just take a hike!
I am what I am!
Don’t care if you beg!
Don’t care what you want!
Don’t care what you say, what you think I seem …
I’m saying, with pride,
What I am inside …
I am a gynoid-copter-gamer-geek extreme!
Get out of my face!
And go kiss my mess!
Prepare for a shock,
‘Cause I’m gonna rock
That tiara and dress!
I am what I am!
I am what I am!
Like Popeye declaims,
Or Yahweh, in flames,
I am what I am!
Wonderful! As a child, I loved Sammy Davis Jr. so much that I literally thought he was the second coming of Christ. And speaking of observant Jews, I think Nick would say “Adonai.”
er. this being a secular context, nick would *never* say that word; it is reserved for prayer. he would probably use the usual workaround, and say “adoshem”.
Wonderful! As a child, I loved Sammy Davis Jr. so much that I literally thought he was the second coming of Christ.
And speaking of observant Jews, wouldn’t Nick would say “Adonai” instead of “Yaweh?”
Aaaaarghhh! I accidentally double-posted again! A pox on undeletable comments.
“Adonai” should never be used directly outside of prayer, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” and all that. Which is weird, because “Adonai” itself means literally “my Lord”, and is the result of that same taboo when applied to the Tetragrammaton itself. Which brings us to “Yaweh”, which is what someone guessed the Tetragrammaton sounded (the actual pronunciation was lost because of aforesaid taboo).
Self-realization, followed quickly by self-actualization. Our Nicky is becoming a man.
Princess.
Sort of.
You know what I mean.
“You can’t please everyone, so you’ll just have to please yourself”… and hey, whaddaya know….
Drat, I could have used ” Garden Party”. I’ll have to put it in the queue …
Great success.
Bravo, Nick. You have come to a realization it took me only 30 years to come to. Wonder how long it took Jeff?
LMAO @ “That’s like my one thing I know”
Also, continuing to enjoy what I see as Nick learning to manipulate the language filter; he doesn’t just work around it – I think he’s actually forcing it to substitute more-nearly-appropriate words. That, or Jeff and Shaenon, but it’s funnier for me if it’s Nick.
and what I am is… a geek-human brain removed by a scientist and implanted into an Osprey that is controlling a drone, that will be playing the part of a princess for the purpose of influencing a corporate sentience who is fronted by radioactive animatronicoids in order to… Or, to put it another way, what I am is hopelessly confused on so many undefinable levels that I’ll just charge boldly forward rather than face the ambiguity?
Excuse me, but no.
Nick is not hopelessly confused — Nick is not confused at all.
Nick is a Jewish male helicopter. He has an appendage-drone, and he’s in love with a sane scientist. He works in government social services, and he plays video games. He’s a hacker, and he’s a fan of Whimsy.
Nick is not confused. He knows exactly who in the bully world he is.
He is confusing, yes. But you know what? That’s my problem. That’s your problem. That’s anyone’s problem but his.
And, he’s definitely not a “geek-human brain removed…”. He’s made it clear that he considers himself as a helicopter, and we should respect that just as much as we should respect people’s names or pronouns.
Have you forgotten so easily? He’s a Helicopter!
I wish I could be a helicopter.
mnem
No, really. I would totes rock that swashplate & collective.
I wouldn’t like to be a tree…
Wanna wanna wanna T-Shirt of panel 3!
Or a button.
And he pops out the “y’alls” again. ¬_¬
SotiCoto bait – I can’t remember if this being turns up after August 2014.
“I yam what I yam and it’s all that I yam.”
See, I use to care what others thought of me, I was bullied so badly. But in high school, I learned it was okay to be myself, not to care what others think, that there will always be someone more rewarding in all that hate, that cares for me, for who I am. Flaws and all.
This above all: To thine own self be true.