Is'n y'all guys alumni of Walden U?

[IDAwHOa]

Git-chure ejumacation taday!

Edit: Hope I got it right now.

[happyturkeyman]

He sure does keep himself busy.

[izzarina]

first Dale and his “rent wisely” campaign, and now walden starting a college. What’s next??

[Jack]

@izzarina

first Dale and his “rent wisely” campaign, and now walden starting a college. What’s next??

I have sauce named after me.

P.S., NorCalMusician, “alumni” is plural. It should be “alumnus”.

[Walden]

Walden University has tried to capitalize on my name,
but I DO NOT endorse said institution, because it
advertises by sending out spam, which is hardly an
activity of a legitimate institution of higher learning.

[JillyKB]

Not only has Walden founded a college, but he also founded a little town in Tennessee nods

[jsluder]

Of course, Walden U. has only one literature class, which studies only one book.

@In [u]Walden[/u]

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

@Also in [u]Walden[/u]

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.

[chas]

@NorCalMusician

Git yure ejumacation Taday!

That’s just the kind of talk I’d expect from one asking if I was “an alumni.”

[Walden]

@chas

@NorCalMusician

Git yure ejumacation Taday!

That’s just the kind of talk I’d expect from one asking if I was “an alumni.”

The word you is treated as a plural, thus (I am told) one is to
say, “you are,” and not “you is.” He was clearly matching the
noun with the pronoun. I’d just chalk up the use of “an” to
artistic license.

[chas]

@Walden

@chas

@NorCalMusician

Git yure ejumacation Taday!

That’s just the kind of talk I’d expect from one asking if I was “an alumni.”

The word you is treated as a plural, thus (I am told) one is to
say, “you are,” and not “you is.” He was clearly matching the
noun with the pronoun. I’d just chalk up the use of “an” to
artistic license.

You is plural? I thought y’all was plural.

Anyhow, thank you for your obfuscation, Walden. Or would that be perfesser Walden? Dean Walden??

[spittin_in_the_wind]

Walden Pond is just up the road a bit.

Robin

[Jack]

@chas

@Walden

@chas

That’s just the kind of talk I’d expect from one asking if I was “an alumni.”

The word you is treated as a plural, thus (I am told) one is to
say, “you are,” and not “you is.” He was clearly matching the
noun with the pronoun. I’d just chalk up the use of “an” to
artistic license.

You is plural? I thought y’all was plural.

Anyhow, thank you for your obfuscation, Walden. Or would that be perfesser Walden? Dean Walden??

Like the French vous, “you” can be singular or plural.

[sandpiper]

for the record, Y’all is singular

all y’all is plural


for those of you in the north it’s

You’s guys. (plural)

Sandpiper


ps Every Wednesday is freestyle grammar day!

[Walden]

@sandpiper

for the record, Y’all is singular

all y’all is plural


for those of you in the north it’s

You’s guys. (plural)

Sandpiper


ps Every Wednesday is freestyle grammar day!

When I was a kid, we used to use “y’all guys” for the plural.

[BrassBlower]

“You-uns” (often pronounced “yunes”) is also plural.

[SirNick]

You mean I should stop refering to everyone as “peasants”? As in, “You peasants there, mop the spitle from my whistle”! I should say y’all or you guy’s instead? This is confusing. I new I shouldn’t have dropped out of Walden Jr. College.

[fearfaoin]

@sandpiper

for the record, Y’all is singular

all y’all is plural

That’s a dirty, slanderous lie.
er … I mean, I think this colloquialism is just in isolated parts of the South.
I grew up in NC, and we never, ever used y’all as a singular pronoun.
It is always plural. Perhaps Sir Nick will contradict me, though. I don’t get out much.

[jen_f]

@fearfaoin

… we never, ever used y’all as a singular pronoun.
It is always plural.

I concur. I’m married to a proud Texan who likes to enlighten others on the proper use of “y’all”-- it is most definitely plural.

Also, note the placement of the apostrophe. One of my husband’s pet peeves is when people spell it “ya’ll.” It doesn’t make any sense that way!

[izzarina]

@BrassBlower

“You-uns” (often pronounced “yunes”) is also plural.

are you from the Ohio valley per chance?

[Darwin]

@sandpiper

for the record, Y’all is singular

Never heard such a thing growing up in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, nor while living in North Carolina.

“You” is singular; y’all is always plural. (Possessive forms are “your” for the singular and “y’all’s” for the plural.) If I hear “y’all” for the singular, I figure I’m listening to a Yankee, or other outlander.