On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 01:29:29AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
On 30.07.2015, at 01:05, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
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