question about yankee slang

[HEyHEY]

When you write "Ya'll". Are you writing it as a bit of a joke, or is it a natural thing?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Well it's only for a single individual..if it's more than one then it's

ALL Y'ALL

[bloodyjack]

5. waitaminute, i've been living in texas for the past nine years

and to my knowledge "y'all" was ONLY used to address more than one person. i mean, it's a contraction of "YOU ALL" right?

then again, maybe i don't get out enough. or am retarded

[JohnKleeb]

2. by yankee do you mean american in general or northerners

If you mean northerners, I assume they's joking. I do y'all sometime myself.

[WindRavenX]

3. Depends

...it's friendly southern slang, so I suspect that those that are from the south actually type it because they use it a lot.
I'm from NJ, and I sometimes TYPE it but not say it.
Depends on region, I guess.

[HEyHEY]

4. Cause I type "EH" alot just cause it's natural

So I was wondering if people go out of their way to type it for shits and giggles or if they actually do type it sans thinking.

[JohnKleeb]

6. I actually type eh

and Canada is how far from here, far. I say and type y'all too,

[AlFrankenFan]

14. For someone living in CA

I say y'all way too much. And howdy. It scares people but my parents say it all the time, too.

[JohnKleeb]

15. hah

I just say hey or hi.

[WindRavenX]

7. I go out of the way to type "wicked"

...because that Boston slang has been fully engrained into my vocabulary :evilgrin:
Wicked. Wicked awesome. Best slang ever.

[bloodyjack]

8. i dont hear WICKED in conversation as often as i would like

are you sure that particular usage originates from Boston?

[WindRavenX]

9. Positive.

I've lived in NJ, OR, and now go to school in Boston. It's not just a general "east coast" slang; it's distintively Bostonian. EVERYONE in Boston says "wicked".
I'd bet money on it.

[HEyHEY]

10. We say it in Vancouver too

But in a different context.

Instead of "That car is wicked fast."

We'd just say "Wicked car!"

But it's probably like that all over.

[WindRavenX]

13. Hmm, slightly different use in Boston

"wicked" is used in the first example you gave; "that car is wicked fast". Wicked is never never used in a short sentence, like "wicked."

[bloodyjack]

12. oh, thats beautiful

you see, i've only run into one other human being in Texas who used WICKED to indicate APPROVAL and, well, she hailed from New Hampshire.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. I don't write it...

don't say it, either, despite having lived in Georgia* since 1986 (when I was nine). I've managed not to acquire any traces of Southern in my speech, which is something I'm happy about.



*NB: "Ya'll" is a Southern American idiom, generally speaking.