Subdood
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I guess it's a southern thing. In a related note, my wife, who is from Kentucky uses that term, it's "y'uns", as you-uns. I'm from OK, so I've never heard of it until she mentioned it, so I had to ask her what are you talking about??In no way diminishing the gravity of the storms....
I hope everyone is fine.
American English makes up new words you hear but often don't see..
I have heard people on TV say " Y'all " but I don't think I ever have seen it typed out .
Cool...
It rolls off the tong nice and its a two letter word!
Ял...
I'm going to through that into an email to a relative and see how she reacts too it.
That Y'all in Cyrillic text...
Its a nice contraction of the word and you would be surprised how many borrow words work their way into non English speakers daily lives.
Like Hi or stop...
Here's what a Ukrainian stop sign says...
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literally just stop...
Next time you fumble with spelling, and I do it all the time think about borrow words.
How many are actually foreign words we have adopted a long with our version of their spelling...
Sorry for being off topic
American English can have many different regional dialects and vocabularies. I've learned lots of new words since we moved here in the Appalachian Foothills.
Yeah, I imagine that stop sign would translate into gibberish in literal Ukrainian (or Russian).
I study languages as a hobby, and I find it all very interesting. I have a basic knowledge of German, French and Spanish. Meaning, I can read it a lot better than speak it. Most Europeans learn several languages in school, I wish that was emphasized here. I took two years of Latin and a year of French in high school, but I hardly remember any Latin, as there wasn't a real reason to. But I still remember quite a bit of French.