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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In parts of the south "y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“Would ya’ll like a soda?” Vs. “Would all ya’ll like a soda?” - one of these means everyone shares one soda, the other means each person gets their own - but I don’t know which is which :O

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"Would y'all like a coke?"

"Would all y'all like cokes?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You misspelled coke. Nobody says "soda" in the south, coke covers that. You have sprite coke, root beer coke, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

As a super non-Southern USA guy, anytime I drop a “y’all” into convo, my Southerner friends say I’m not doing it right because I simply substitute all “you” instances with “y’all”.

I guess these friends don’t come from the singular-y’all part of the South.