grammar (was Re: Fwd: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-laden treatise on SCO vs. IBM)

Gary W. Swearingen swear at attbi.com
Thu May 22 15:06:51 PDT 2003


> >You, not "y'all".  Please.
> 
> No!  No!  It is merely artistic flair!

Not "merely", but yeah, I find "you all" too stilted or something.  I
think that the Southernism should be acceptable in informal writing, to
avoid the need to make the sentence longer with extra words that would
tend to detract from the point being made.  "You" wouldn't have worked
because it was ambiguous.  The alternative was probably something like
"you and your fellow copyleftists".  But it seems that the contraction
detracts from the point too, in some minds.  Hmmmm.


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