…Giving me flashbacks to that Mercedes Lackey book that tried to make “singular y’all” a thing, work characters in Appalachia. (I’m told it’s a thing further west, but for Appalachian characters it was nails on a chalkboard).
💜
I don’t know about any of that other stuff, but y’all is absolutely you+all, and to me is explicitly referring to other people, meaning more than one. You could do y’all for somebody who is a DiD system maybe.
Yeah, that’s how I had to think of the main character, as a person containing multiple personalities. The author I mentioned is a Brit living in Oklahoma, and I think that’s where The Internet™ told me some folks use “singular y’all”. I grew up in Kentucky and it wasn’t a thing there.
…Giving me flashbacks to that Mercedes Lackey book that tried to make “singular y’all” a thing, work characters in Appalachia. (I’m told it’s a thing further west, but for Appalachian characters it was nails on a chalkboard). 💜
I don’t know about any of that other stuff, but y’all is absolutely you+all, and to me is explicitly referring to other people, meaning more than one. You could do y’all for somebody who is a DiD system maybe.
Yeah, that’s how I had to think of the main character, as a person containing multiple personalities. The author I mentioned is a Brit living in Oklahoma, and I think that’s where The Internet™ told me some folks use “singular y’all”. I grew up in Kentucky and it wasn’t a thing there.