Is the following sentence correct English usage ? "I intend on voting on Friday."
fidelity loss in translating languages that have you-plural and you-singular to y'all-less english is intolerable
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(but i'm correspondingly angry about dialects that use y'all for you-singular and all y'all for you-plural)
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I've heard about singular y'all for years. As a Southerner, I don't remember ever encountering it in the wild. /1
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I can only assume other people have. No sarcasm. /2
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What I do encounter from time to time is plural y'all used where a group is implied, but not all are present. /3
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And I see all y'all used as an emphatic form. But that's not everyone's experience, obviously. /end
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