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[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:49pm

but the question remains --- did we all have too much or not enough caffeine today???

Lord knows I am the king of typos as many previous posts will attest to -- am very thankful for the new spell-check addition to the Google tool bar.........and don't get me started on people who use excessive periods or dashes --- geez they bug the sh*t out of me....

Updated On: 11/7/05 at 03:49 PM

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:50pm

Bitches! All y'all!

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:50pm

Boy, don't make me git the hose...

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:54pm

Uh oh. I am the queen of the excessive dot-dot-dots. (Not so much a fan of the dash...) It's an addiction.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:54pm

"Y'all" is technically considered a shibboleth. It's similar to using words like chutzpah or cajones, it's part of a regionalized/culturalized dialect. Tell a Jewish woman that calling a man a putz isn't acceptable and see what happens.

And I would never use "y'all" in a term paper either, but I'm tired of people making it seem as though I've just morphed into some slack-jawed hick whenever I happen to use it.

The apostrophe thing made me think of another: the improper use of its/it's and people who use proper names ending with "S" and just add the possessive apostrophe after it. I can't find my grammar book right now, but it definitely states it is incorrect.

Updated On: 11/7/05 at 03:54 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:57pm

I use the dashes and ellipses here because I think it more closely represents the way I talk, which is MY goal. It's hard enough to discern tone, emphasis, and intent in a thread as it is; I'm just trying to make it as clear as possible.

[peach]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:59pm

My name is peach and I too, am a dot.dot.dotter..

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:59pm

Did you catch that jailyard guy and I are both southerners.

Maybe that actually has something to do with why I dislike the term so much?

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:00pm

Unfortunately, though, that's just how things are. "Y'all" and "ain't" have been ingrained into the social collective consciousness as terms used by people of lesser education, whether or not this is *actually* the case, and people using those terms should be prepared to be considered as such.

Whenever I say "oy gevult!" or call someone a "schmendrick" as I am wont to do, I don't get upset when people ask me if I'm Jewish. I understand that people associate these terms with a certain group of people, and that my use of those terms will probably cause others to presume I am part of that group.

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:03pm

I think I have you all beat with the dashes --- at least I think so....or is it the dots????? I'm certain of it!!!!

Seriously, as Lildog said -- I use the dots, dashes, etc as an intended writing style for a very casual and conversation tone. It does drive many people nuts (I could pull a few PM's from some). That actually makes me laugh and think some people need to get a life...

But then I'll bet this month's paycheck that those are some of the same people who take the time to actually develop multiple screen names and have conversations and arguments with themselves and others.

[Kringas]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:04pm

But what gets me BATTY is the improper use of the word "myself." People, especially in the corporate world, think it is interchangable with the word "me," as in "if you have any questions, please call Mary or myself." Aarrgghh! the correct word is "me!"

Another A-freaking-men! Add to that when people decide that since they hear so often that "and me" is wrong, they instead say "and I" in every instance.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:05pm

I'll, um...drink to that. Or...something. So....like, when are we gonna go get, like, plastered again, dude?

It's been like....forever!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:12pm

Sorry smartpenguin, I did see that. My post originally had a line asking if "y'all were self-hating Southerners," but I wasn't sure if it would insult you or not, so I took it out.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:15pm

No, I'm not a self-hating Southerner. I was born in Pennsylvania...I just lived in WV for seven years when my mother married her hillbil...er, my stepdad. We eventually moved back to Yank territory, then I lived in France for a while. Definitely not a Southerner. Ever. At all. In any way, shape, or form.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:18pm

The constant spelling mistake that really, really always gets to me is when people spell definitely "definately". Bothers me to no end...

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:19pm

That was probably a good plan, it doesn't bother me now, but in that context I think it would have bothered me a lot. My arguement is not about hating things associated with the south, although I do dislike a great deal of them.
I simply think of y'all as a corruption of the language.

I agree with the basic point that you are making, the use of the term is not an indicator of "lower intellegence" that some seem to think that is a problem, as with the "southern accent" cauing someone to think you are less intellegent.

I do think, especially outside the south, the term should not be used. It is a corruption of the language, and why should southerners be blamed for screwing something else up.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:22pm

Fargess, Jailyard! My bf is Jewish and I speak much more Yiddish than he does, despite being a goy boy. I also have a more of a yiddische punim.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:23pm

I'm from Maryland technically, which most Southerners don't consider to be Southern. Apparently not ceding from the union in the Civil War caused some long-lasting issues. But I was raised by a Texan and spent my summers in North Carolina, so some of it rubbed off on me. I didn't consider my self to be Southern really, until I moved to New York state. Suddenly, guys were telling me it was cute when a slight twang slipped out occasionally. That definitely helped me in accepting it

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:27pm

Damn you for already having a boyfriend. Damn you. *crosses lil off the list*

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:30pm

Well as the "real southerner" heah, let me say y'all don't know what we have to put up with being from Georgia. (And the adament nature of Jailyard's denial of being southern speaks volumes.)

OS, from the opposite gender it is not the case, a slip of the drawl has gotten me the most condescending comments you can imagine. I don't even sound particularly southern, but on occasion in class someone will say, "I can't understand that mumbled drawl, if you can't be clear don't talk." I have very good diction, it is a shot at my background and I dislike it intensely. Yet I still remove y'all from this, I never have used the term. (In common speech, again as joke or for emphasis I have used it.)

Updated On: 11/7/05 at 04:30 PM

[RobbO]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:40pm

okay, kids, for extra bonus points: find all of the typos in smartpenguin's posts of the past hour or so. begin now!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:42pm

That's what I meant before about disliking the stereotype that Southern automatically means uneducated hick. If I were to walk around campus proclaiming that everyone with a Long Island accent was uneducated, I'd be lynched.

Just being from Maryland, I get so much crap based on misconceptions. Someone once asked me how my dad would react if I brought a black guy home. Considering my dad is NOT racist (and my high school boyfriend was black) it was just beyond rude of them to insinuate that. You would never ask someone from New York that same question.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:45pm

There almost certainly far more than I have any excuse for.

Which is one reason I said, repeatedly, I felt most typos were perfectly acceptable.

So why single me out Robbo? I am not being hypocritical, I sometimes try to correct larger mistakes, yet I do not see the need to pore over very post to ensure they are perfect.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:50pm

Then again, you've never used "u" or "bcuz," so you're still better off than the original poster.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:50pm

Ouch!