OT was: Re: [Vm-dev] SqueakSSL plugin v0.2.0 (was: Re: Fixes to the SqueakSSL Plugin)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Jul 29 23:41:12 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 01:29:29AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30.07.2015, at 01:05, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:54:50PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
> >> 
> >> I now wade through the all yer (what's the explicit plural of your [think y'all])
> >> mails and will reply individually.
> > 
> > The plural of "y'all" is "all y'all".
> > 
> >  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=all+y%27all
> >  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%27all
> > 
> > Thus, "I now wade through all y'all's emails ..."
> > 
> ah, probably y'all's would have worked?

Certainly not. We are going for a comfortable down-home style with
friendly melodic inflection and a slow welcoming drawl. There is no
point in economizing on keystrokes, you want to drag that phrase out,
letting it roll slowly off the tongue or keyboard ;-)

Dave



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