Nothing wrong with that. It’s something like letting the jockeys bet on horse races. What could possibly go wrong? No worse than letting the defendants leave envelopes of cash on the seat of the judge’s car. The fact that Lewandowski gets more money from the Trump campaign a month than most of us see in half a year shouldn’t affect his political analysis one way or the other, should it?
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I have such disdain for CNN because of this Corey Creep that I first stopped watching CNN altogether, but now I just mute it whenever he appears. They will forever be tainted by this ethical indiscretion.
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*“Ya’ll” is a violation of the rules for the use of the apostrophe. In contractions, the apostrophe is used to indicate where letters are missing. Hence, “y’all” is the only possible correct usage because there are no letters missing between the a and ll of “all”.
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Y’all is singular. You plural is all y’all
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“You” comes from “ye”, the orignal plural second person nominative pronoun. Singular was “thou” but fell out of use because it increasingly was viewed as condescending, somewhat like the Romance language “tu,” It’s the reason we use “are” rather than “is”, plural verbs rather than singular with “you.” So “Y’all” pluralizes that which already always was plural.
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Anderson…Anderson…Your equivalency is pathetic! A spokesperson/surrogate for a particular candidate who comes on your show to present their point of view is not being paid by CNN to do that. Your an idiot! Lewendowsky is a paid consultant even if he is no longer “Working” for the campaign. Your an idiot!
I’ve heard that argument, and after living most all of my adult life in the South, that’s not usually the case. Y’all is generally you plural, and you is generally singular. Even in tiny pockets where you hear people say “y’all” for a singular usage, is mostly in a generic sense. And those are very tiny pockets, in my experience. At least in Atlanta, its almost exclusively “you” when talking to a person and “y’all” when talking to a group.
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Why bother with the revolving door, when you can just work the 2 or more jobs at the same damn time?
I agree with you. That’s been my experience in VA, SC, FL, and TN, where I’ve spent the last 55 years.
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Do what? You’re claiming you doesn’t have a singular form? I can assure you every dictionary on the planet will disagree with you on that. Maybe you’re explaining the origin of using only the plural form of the verb, but that just makes it an irregular verb, as ‘to be’ is in most languages. That doesn’t make the pronoun de facto plural. When I speak to you as I’m doing now, I’m addressing one person, not the people that the plural form of you, or y’all, represents. Or are you going to tell me it’s perfectly correct that when speaking to an individual, you is plural because we’re addressing the individual’s multicellularity, and hence multiple cells?
BTW, in French, tu is the informal version of second person singular ‘you’, while vous is both the formal second person singular and second person plural, just as ‘you’ is in English. What we lack in comparison to most European languages is a distinction between formal and informal forms of second person pronouns.
Lest we forget, German uses Sie for she, you (formal), and they. Perhaps they need a S’ Alle.
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LOL tell me about it. I lived and worked in that language for 3 years. Very difficult grammar!.