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RE: can't we just do 2001 again

To: "'Peter T. Chattaway'" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Subject: RE: can't we just do 2001 again
From: "David Armstrong" <darmstrong at raygroup_com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:03:09 -0500
Cc: "'Over the Rhine listserv'" <Over-The-Rhine at actwin_com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-over-the-rhine at actwin_com
[mailto:owner-over-the-rhine at actwin_com]On Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:00 AM
Cc: Over the Rhine listserv
Subject: Re: can't we just do 2001 again

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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"...the English language needs a clearly 
identifiable second-person-plural pronoun,..."

needs? come on now. surely you jest.

tranquilly,
david

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