As you all may have guessed, I am not regularly reading y'all's LJs. Why did I just decide to use both 'you all' _and_ "y'all"?
Because you couldn't have said "... I am not regularly reading you all's LJs." You would have been forced to fall back on "your," probably without taking full advantage of your daily ration of "all-s." Then you'd be contributing to the problem of floating "all-s," which stick themselves into sentences where they have no business being, sometimes cleverly disguising themselves as words like "everyone" or "always," and causing crass overgeneralizations to pollute our intellectual atmosphere.
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Date: 2004-12-28 03:36 pm (UTC)Because you couldn't have said "... I am not regularly reading you all's LJs." You would have been forced to fall back on "your," probably without taking full advantage of your daily ration of "all-s." Then you'd be contributing to the problem of floating "all-s," which stick themselves into sentences where they have no business being, sometimes cleverly disguising themselves as words like "everyone" or "always," and causing crass overgeneralizations to pollute our intellectual atmosphere.
See? It was for the common good! :-D