How ya’ll use language (or is that you guys?)!
April 16th, 2008 by Rich
For those of you who have not read Tim Ferriss’s book, The 4 Hour Work Week, get up, walk away from your computer, get in your car, drive to your bookstore, buy it, find a shady bench and READ IT! And then when you get home, check out his blog.
I say this because (1) he’s got a lot of great stuff to say about life, etc. and (2) he just posted a brilliant blog about word usage - particularly the use of ya’ll vs you guys and so on. It begs the question, is language formal, with specific rules of usage that MUST be kept or is it fluid and changing with need and popularity?
Read the blog at: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/16/youse-yall-and-other-confusions
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