Talk:y'allselves
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Huh? Ligo 23:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- I was surprised to find a few cites for these. But I wonder whether native speakers of y'all- and youse-using dialects ever used these forms, or whether the authors weren't simply imitating them inaccurately. --Ptcamn 04:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Do we/should we allow Eye Dialects? I'd guess no, offhand. --Connel MacKenzie 19:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Seems like it: gonna, kinda, wanna. DAVilla 21:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Those are not examples of an author trying to reflect a rare dialect, those are common slang. --Connel MacKenzie 05:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, my response wasn't to these rare dialectical terms y'allselves and youseselves, which I haven't heard. It was directly to your question. At the time I checked, kinda and wanna were listed as good examples on the Wikipedia article you linked. Of the three, now only gonna remains. However, dat is another immediate example, and it too exists here, although it's strangely incorrect. DAVilla 15:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Those are not examples of an author trying to reflect a rare dialect, those are common slang. --Connel MacKenzie 05:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Seems like it: gonna, kinda, wanna. DAVilla 21:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Do we/should we allow Eye Dialects? I'd guess no, offhand. --Connel MacKenzie 19:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
I personally dont think they meet any standard for inclusion. Moving conversation to RFD. Andrew massyn 11:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
James Hardy, "2nd Time Around", 1996, p. 104:
- "I know both of y'all better than y'all know y'allselves.”
Ted Bell, "Hawke: A Novel", 2004, p. 232:
- “Man, I can't leave y'all alone for twenty minutes y'all don't manage to get y'allselves all blown to shit and back.”
Rebecca Godwin, "Keeper of the House", 1995, p. 102:
- We're gone be in hot water as it is, and it's coming on time for dinner and y'all readying y'allselves to sit for Sunday night company.
Based on the above, it appears y'allselves is an excellent addition to our Wiktionary :-) Of course, it should probably have some appropriate tags like "colloquial", "informal", possibly "slang". However, I wasn't able to find many cites for youseselves. *Signed Language Lover*