Comment on foil

• DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are thinking of y’all, which is a southern American slang contraction of “you all.” However, this person put “ya’ll,” so it’s a contraction of “ya will.”

  Either way, neither really fits on the context of the sentence. I wish they had just said poor addicts if that’s who they meant to imply. Shame on me for projecting if I’m misinterpreting.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Y’all” spelled “ya’ll” bugs the shit out of me. It’s my “I’m a descriptivist until…” Moment.

    But “we … For y’all people” absolutely is how they’d say it where I’m from. The quotes around the word read to me like they’re shaming them (which, honestly, in the South, I’m sure I’m sure they are), but the sentence structure itself is perfectly in line with how it’s normally spoken in my experience.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s like an extra plural of “you people”, to include a broader range of “you people” instead of the singular plural.

      Hopefully the linguist hippies can explain.

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      • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What do you mean “you people?” 😠

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  • jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Y’all’ll

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      y’all’d’ve

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    • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yalla

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The correct term is, “all y’all”.

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  • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s accurate because there is more than likely more than one person stealing foil for drug use.

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• Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was just pointing out the typo.

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• BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a separate issue. Some are concerned that Y’all is spelled Ya’ll, but you’re concerned about the quotes.

    That’s to alert the right people to the open foil. The writer knows who they’re addressing, and the right people reading it understand. It’s kind of a “If You know, You know” sort of situation.

    Someone like my mom would think the store was being considerate, leaving a sample roll to inspect the quality, like when you check out the eggs.

    She doesn’t know it’s to keep the tweakers from stealing the corner of every piece of foil in the store. Honestly, she doesn’t even know what tweakers are.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, your English is pretty good for a Canadian. Did you go to international school or did you grow up in the rough part of Canada?

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn dude, I didn’t think I was rude at all to you. Just thought you didn’t understand the word and offered a judgment free explanation. Fuck me for trying to be nice I guess.

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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    those are just regular quotation marks

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