Okay this has been abridged so as to protect anonymity, but this is ridiculous. Especially the part I am going to bolden.

This is an e-mail I got as part of my college's lifeguarding staff. This person is looking for coverage on shifts.



I'm sure she's a very nice girl and all, but JESUS MOFOING CHRIST! Learn how to speak English and type. Holy god, the south scares me so much and this is a perfect example why.

Y'all need to relax.

You're probably right...I don't mean to sound angry. I really find it funny more than anything else. It's just a perfect example of southernness.

but i guess my angry backlash was a perfect example of nothernness.

The problem is with this individual, not southerners in general.

Have you never spoken to someone from Brooklyn or the Bronx? Not very refined sounding and you might make the mistake of thinking they weren't very quick on the uptake, but you'd be equally wrong.

Steve

I think it's the lack of apostrophes that makes her sound stupider than Rami's classy post.

Three things for ya Chase:

1. That person is a fucking idiot, but I dont think it has much to do with her southerness. Like Steve said, its not really regional.

2. I've read a couple of your "reviews" before. Careful there with throwing rocks in that glass house of yours there, chief.....

3. Don't come back to Nashville. And if you see Holland Hill-----RUN!

Wait...she's got mono and she's going away for a week? She ain't too sick to take a holiday, it appears.

I don't know Steve... there are some pretty stupid people down there (I'm even Norther than NYC right now... I can look down on almost everyone!).

That cracked me up. But beware A, you are just gonna give fuel to the Canuks....

A friend of mine from Memphis once told me:
"Y'all is a very useful word. It's shitloads better than saying 'You guys' like y'all do in Chicago. Now y'all two can kiss my ass!"

I don't use "y'all" and I have been in the south all my life.

Y'all doesn't sound half as stupid (or awesome) as yuins.

I'd rather hear y'all, yuins and yunes than "know what I mean" and "see what I'm sayin'" interjected into every phrase.

I forgot to say that I actually have adopted the phrase since college. It is useful, and flows a lot better than 'You guys". But, being a Yankee, I keep it under control.

But not as good as "Youse", as we'd say in Jersey.

i use it. peoples from different areas talk funny. you guys sounds much more retarded in my opinion.

Youse need to put down the Bon Jovi and go re-listen to some Soundgarden, I think.

Seriously, I use y'all all the time. I don't use it in formal, or even informal writing much, but I like it. My brother-in-law recently married a girl from Minnesota, and I sometimes want to strangle her "you guys" throat.

y'all does bother me, I admit it. My wife's family also uses this one which is even worse - "might could" - such as:

- think you could run to the store and buy some milk
- i might could if I had a little more time

the midwestern term "and that" always bugs me.

Y'all is as entrenched in my vocab as "fuck" which means I say very little without one of the two popping up.

<----a little callous.....

I use "y'all" and I have only been to the south once in my life
i don't use "yo" or "use guys" and i live in philly

nawamean dog? nawamean?

All y'all can eat a dick. 'cept Steve and Kurtz.

Yes this person is stupid, but if you really have aproblem with it c, why are you enrolledin such a venerable Southern Institution as Vanderbilt? Why don't you enroll with the rest of the mooks at Drexel or Rutgers, I'm sure youse would get a better education, and have a better time at it.

Stay out the way of the Southern Thing.

Seriously, though, can we end this argument? Y'all know its gonna enflame me and Busty, Cap'n, Derris and Bloor. If that's why you do it, fine, but don't cry when we talk about no one missing Philly if it is Hiroshimized.

STRONG ISLAND.

I rarely use it, but there are times when it hits the spot. "After 4 beers" is generally one of those times.

Stupid midwesternisms:
- "Oh Yah."
- "Oh Jees." (oh jeez, but the z is pronounced like an s).
- "Parking Ramp" instead of parking deck. It's not a ramp, and you aren't jumping over anything.