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 @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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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 @MrPersimmon @fadeaccompli
i've only encountered it by self-report, not spontaneous usage; iirc it was claimed to be a Texas thing
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