Sure, have at it. I got it from Jamminbison with her permission. I'm not sure but I don't think she made it originally. You might want to credit her as the source of this line of distribution though.
Y'all is one of those touchstones in life that allow you to immediately identify the posers of the world. A really annoying thing about this particular author is that she uses a fake Southern dialect in her author's notes even for those stories set in fandoms with no Southern characters.
My mother's side of the family is South Alabama Cracker back to before THE war but my father was Puerto Rican and spent his teen years in New York before coming down to Mobile, marrying Mama, and moving to Lake City so I grew up hearing both his Spanish accent and her Southern one.
I had the really hick Cracker accent as a small kid but years of school teachers urging me to speak properly wore it down until a semester of Voice and Diction and several years as a theater major pretty much purged it. I now mostly speak generic educated Southerner with drifts to a broader accent depending on my mood and who I've been spending time with.
Ironically a few years back I realized that somewhere along the line I'd lost the ability to believably speak my own native dialect naturally and would need to spend time with certain family members who still talk that way and deliberately relearn it if I needed to use it for some reason and do it right. And yet, I can still do the Scarlet O'hara upperclass Piedmont accent at the drop of a hat after doing it for at least two stage productions in my twenties.
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Date: 2008-03-15 12:49 am (UTC)Y'all is one of those touchstones in life that allow you to immediately identify the posers of the world. A really annoying thing about this particular author is that she uses a fake Southern dialect in her author's notes even for those stories set in fandoms with no Southern characters.
My mother's side of the family is South Alabama Cracker back to before THE war but my father was Puerto Rican and spent his teen years in New York before coming down to Mobile, marrying Mama, and moving to Lake City so I grew up hearing both his Spanish accent and her Southern one.
I had the really hick Cracker accent as a small kid but years of school teachers urging me to speak properly wore it down until a semester of Voice and Diction and several years as a theater major pretty much purged it. I now mostly speak generic educated Southerner with drifts to a broader accent depending on my mood and who I've been spending time with.
Ironically a few years back I realized that somewhere along the line I'd lost the ability to believably speak my own native dialect naturally and would need to spend time with certain family members who still talk that way and deliberately relearn it if I needed to use it for some reason and do it right. And yet, I can still do the Scarlet O'hara upperclass Piedmont accent at the drop of a hat after doing it for at least two stage productions in my twenties.