15-10-2007, 22:45
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Re: [Merged] Jokes Thread
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
I know the following statement will please quite a lot of people, but - "Words fail me".
Update -
Sorry, I have now got the joke - it is about the difference between the singular and the plural uses of the second-person personal pronoun " you"; for instance, because you is both singular and plural, various English dialects have attempted to revive the distinction between a singular and plural you to avoid confusion between the two uses. This is typically done by adding a new plural form; examples of new plurals sometimes seen and heard are y'all/you-all (primarily in the southern United States and African American Vernacular English), you guys (in the U.S., particularly in Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast, and in Australia), youse/youse guys (Scotland, Northern England, Australia, New Zealand, New York City region, Philadelphia, Michigan's Upper Peninsula; also spelt without the E), and you-uns/yinz (Western Pennsylvania, The Appalachians). English spoken in Ireland, known as Hiberno-English, uses the word ye as the plural form, or yous.
You're right, it is quite clever. 
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Ah - yes - well - er - ahem - cough - that's right. Assuming that the above is the case, then if one was (perhaps) located within the southern United States of America, for example - Louisiana or maybe within the districts adjacent to the Mississippi delta a typical response would be:
Yezzum!
Si thee
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