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Re: can't we just do 2001 again

Subject: Re: can't we just do 2001 again
From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:59:58 -0800 (PST)
cc: Over the Rhine listserv <Over-The-Rhine at actwin_com>
In-Reply-To: <20020103135118.88454.qmail at web11507_mail.yahoo.com>

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Kelvin Bailey wrote:
> > > Happy New Years Ya'll (I do NOT have a southern accent!)

FWIW, I say "y'all" all the time, and, by virtue of having lived my entire
life in Vancouver (except for one year in Poland when I was 6, and eight
months in Saskatchewan when I was 17), I don't have a Southern accent
either.  I just say "y'all" because the English language needs a clearly
identifiable second-person-plural pronoun, similar to the distinction
between "tu" and "vous" in French, but right now, all we have is "you".

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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