Is the following sentence correct English usage ? "I intend on voting on Friday."
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Replying to @MrPersimmon
I say "no, never" in the sense of "…in any dialect I’m familiar with." Probably anything is correct English in /some/ dialect.
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Replying to @fadeaccompli
Ah, I'm surprised that you didn't hear it in Texas (okay, Austin is different), but I hear it next door. Also, point taken.
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Replying to @MrPersimmon
Basically, anything that fills a gap (y’all) spreads to me easily, local variations tend not to show in the classrooms.
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Replying to @fadeaccompli
That's also an interesting point, about what fills a gap, linguistically.
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Replying to @MrPersimmon
I leapt on y’all as soon as it was around me, because it’s /useful/. Haven’t picked up many other Texan dialect bits.
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Replying to @fadeaccompli @MrPersimmon
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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Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli
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've only encountered it by self-report, not spontaneous usage; iirc it was claimed to be a Texas thing
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