By: mule98J
That's aa--tall, if you please. Aa as in hat, tall as in tall. Then spit on the ground. But'chur right. It ain't. It jist ain't.
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BlueHorse: ""Y'all" beats "you guys" hands down. Score one for Dixie. Yinz beats 'em all. Score two fer Pittsburgh! Scuse me while I go warsh my hands. Yinz redd up in hair, and make shore you outten...
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"Y'all" beats "you guys" hands down. Score one for Dixie. Yinz beats 'em all. Score two fer Pittsburgh! Scuse me while I go warsh my hands. Yinz redd up in hair, and make shore you outten the lights...
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They call them Rules, not Suggestions. One of my neighbors has a rule that when two pawns are in the proper (diagonal) position, the guy who moves next has to take the other pawn, like in checkers....
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And I overthought enough beans in making this post to feed a post-apocalyptic village." Won't be so much a village should someone light a match. Samizdata, am I the only one who overthinks green beans...
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oneswellfoop: "Why is the length of the book of note? I pondered hard how to point out it was not a minor publication and opted out of mentioning the "500 languages" cited therein. Why the single...
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the quidnunc kid: "Metafilter: postnomicsathongatesplainingcationtainmentitudetasticliciouspocalypsegasm." -filter. (BTW, that quote broke the preview box.)
View ArticleBy: Challahtronix
What's the deal with Rhode Island in that "Yinz/You Guys/Y'all" chart? I would've thought that was prime "youse" territory, which they don't even show on the map.
View ArticleBy: thelonius
If you play chess seriously, you learn about complexes of colored squares and so on, and you become well-acquainted with the terrain - which squares are what color, how various possible things connect...
View ArticleBy: Gordafarin
All y'all makes perfect sense to me. To put it in northern terms: All of you guys.
View ArticleBy: ricochet biscuit
And it matters in actual chess how? Seriously, the game trees of chess and that of horizontally-reflected chess are isomorphic. It is like the celebrated brown M&Ms rider: the band does not care...
View ArticleBy: Jpfed
And that wouldn't matter if the board had nine rows and columns and the king were flanked by two queens. And it matters in actual chess how? Seriously, the game trees of chess and that of...
View ArticleBy: kenko
The only difference between the "correct" and "incorrect" initial setups is a horizontal reflection. And that wouldn't matter if the board had nine rows and columns and the king were flanked by two...
View ArticleBy: elizardbits
Not really, it's just an obsolete form of "you". Unless it's the archaic form of the, as in þe.
View ArticleBy: The 10th Regiment of Foot
It could be the entirity of a subset of a group, say, just the boys snickering when Lurlene spilled Boone's Farm on her cutoffs.
View ArticleBy: empath
A super plural as she put it, is used when the entire group is being referenced, as opposed to a subset of it.
View ArticleBy: oneswellfoop
I'm just relieved that the chess boards are correct here. (Although the giant chessboard with the dancers... depends on whether it's supposed to be Player's POV or not...)
View ArticleBy: The 10th Regiment of Foot
In Brum they use 'y'a'right?' as 'how are you?'. Interesting, in the Southeastern US, that would be said upon ariving at the scene of an accident.
View ArticleBy: Bunny Ultramod
Finally! The word I have been looking for is "ye".Here you can hear the Rubberbandits use it.
View ArticleBy: Sys Rq
"it turns out that chess is played this way — and so a movie that shows it played otherwise is sort of unrealistic." And I guess what I'm saying is that chess is also very, very often played "wrong" in...
View ArticleBy: thelonius
Exactly. Chess in TV and films is typically used to signify "look this character is intelligent and deep", so they look particularly foolish when they get this wrong.
View ArticleBy: nebulawindphone
I guess what I'm saying is, I see the Okrent article as making a descriptive point rather than a prescriptive one. Not "chess should be played this way, and playing it otherwise is blasphemous and...
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And in official tennis rules, the ball must be white or yellow. Doesn't mean anyone playing recreationally with a pink ball is some sort of philistine or blasphemer. Right, but if you saw a movie with...
View ArticleBy: Jehan
Finally! The word I have been looking for is "ye". Thank god! We need to work together to bring this back into common usage. Saying "you guys" all the time is super-annoying. Not really, it's just an...
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Queen goes on its color, so if the board is oriented the wrong way the king and queen will be reversed White on the right with queen on its color is one convention for establishing that order of...
View ArticleBy: Sys Rq
I believe official tournament rules say if the board is oriented incorrectly and nobody points it out, the game can still count as official. If someone points it out, the clocks are stopped and the...
View ArticleBy: The 10th Regiment of Foot
It's only an issue if you are the kind of person that memorizes moves rather than playing the game a play at a time.
View ArticleBy: windykites
Finally! The word I have been looking for is "ye". Thank god! We need to work together to bring this back into common usage. Saying "you guys" all the time is super-annoying.
View ArticleBy: bondcliff
Re: Chess boards. Unless you're really anal, the orientation of the board doesn't matter in the least. Queen goes on its color, so if the board is oriented the wrong way the king and queen will be...
View ArticleBy: kenko
Unless you're really anal, the orientation of the board doesn't matter in the least. It certainly doesn't make any difference to the gameplay The positions of your king and queen are swapped. It's...
View ArticleBy: The 10th Regiment of Foot
"From Y'all To Youse, 8 English Ways to Make "You" Plural" I'd just like to point out that the Super-Plural, "all y'all" is reserved for special occasions only (that most often involve drinking) and is...
View ArticleBy: acb
Huh? Conservative Quakers went on using "thou" way longer than just about anyone else in the English-speaking world. Which probably made doing so terminally uncool for non-conservative-Quakers.
View ArticleBy: oneswellfoop
Why is the length of the book of note? I pondered hard how to point out it was not a minor publication and opted out of mentioning the "500 languages" cited therein. Why the single quotes around and...
View ArticleBy: nebulawindphone
how the Quakers were largely to blame for the loss of thou... Huh? Conservative Quakers went on using"thou" way longer than just about anyone else in the English-speaking world.
View ArticleBy: Sys Rq
Re: Chess boards. Unless you're really anal, the orientation of the board doesn't matter in the least. It certainly doesn't make any difference to the gameplay. Maybe the believably human characters in...
View ArticleBy: Chrysostom
oneswellfoop: "(previously here on sign language interpreters and her 352-page book about 'Invented Languages')" Why is the length of the book of note? Why the single quotes around and capitalization...
View ArticleBy: achrise
Pleasantly surprised to see "all y'all" mentioned in 'Super Plurals: Sometimes a plural is simply not plural enough.'
View ArticleBy: dlugoczaj
Ooch. She spelled "guerrilla" wrong in her last sentence in the weirdly spelled words article. Not good karma (unless she did it on purpose for the pedants among us?).
View ArticleBy: teleri025
There was a terribly cute boy in college that like to pretend he wasn't from the South. One night he corrected me when I said "Y'all want another beer?" because y'all was not proper English. I then...
View ArticleBy: Jehan
There's a mistake in the very first word, "Thought", in the first list. Neither yogh (that is, the sign which looks like ȝ) nor eth (which looks like ð) are "runic characters". Both are derived from...
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