I thought I was the original person who pointed out that when you're tired, you drift south. It also happens sometimes depending on what you're talking about. I think certain things have "southern" associations or connotations in your mind (like the conversation we had last night about cars).
Why is it that we inevitably have conversations about things that are stereotypically strongly gendered male? :) That seems kind of weird to me. I think we've even talked about football, for goodness' sakes, and I don't even watch football...
I find "all y'all" about as jarring in your speech as eviltomble finds "what all" (as in "What all do you want on your sandwich?"*) in mine. :)
_______________ * For those of you not familiar with Canadian dialect, the above sentence translates to "Tell me everything you want on the sandwich, in list form." The difference between the answers for "What do you want on your sandwich?" and "What all do you want on your sandwich?" would be that if you answered "Ham" to the former, that's all you'd get, whereas if you answered, "Ham, mustard, and lettuce," you'd get all of those things. We also have an analogous construction using "who" and "who all" (as in "Who was at the party?" versus "Who all was at the party?") and "Where" and "Where all".
Canadian? Gosh! "What all" and "who all" are an utterly standard distinction in my own speech. (Perhaps those W-NY/Ontarian connections mentioned above?) As for "where all", I was about to say not so much, but then in thinking it over I certainly would use it in things like "Where all did you look for it?" = "give me the exhaustive list so I don't duplicate your search effort!" or "Where all did you go?", etc.
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Why is it that we inevitably have conversations about things that are stereotypically strongly gendered male? :) That seems kind of weird to me. I think we've even talked about football, for goodness' sakes, and I don't even watch football...
I find "all y'all" about as jarring in your speech as
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* For those of you not familiar with Canadian dialect, the above sentence translates to "Tell me everything you want on the sandwich, in list form." The difference between the answers for "What do you want on your sandwich?" and "What all do you want on your sandwich?" would be that if you answered "Ham" to the former, that's all you'd get, whereas if you answered, "Ham, mustard, and lettuce," you'd get all of those things. We also have an analogous construction using "who" and "who all" (as in "Who was at the party?" versus "Who all was at the party?") and "Where" and "Where all".
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