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[wombat]

Great Caesar's Ghost! People, can we at least try to have only one thread at a time that turns into a nitpicking prescriptive grammar session?  Have mercy!

[AlohaDawg]

How can you have a contraction when one of the elements is not a word?

I'm with Aug if only that the logical argument is that 'ya' is a diminutive or lesser form of 'you' to begin with.

[wombat]

Sigh. I guess not.

[AlohaDawg]

We only have a few topics around here

Cartoons (occasionally)
Wrestling (occasionally)
Grammar (frequently)
Music (often)
Tiny Cans of Dr Pepper (incessantly)

[misterqueue]

Tiny Cans of Dr Pepper (incessantly)

You know, I'm going to start complaining repeatedly the next time Jesus or sports are brought up, because I find those things silly I think it's best if people don't discuss them on a board I'm on instead of just ignoring the discussion.

[idiomsavant]

Are there any rules about how to make a contraction out of two or more words that are already contractions?  For instance, would the contraction of "you all are not" be "y'all'ren't"?

NB: I live in the South, so "y'all'ren't" being incorrect will not necessarily preclude my using it.

[pmcd9]

Remember when A Cox's girlfriend showed us pictures of herself eating Vanilla ice cream with specks?  Those were the days.  That's how i'll always remember this thread.

~Paul

[pmcd9]

We only have a few topics around here

Cartoons (occasionally)
Wrestling (occasionally)
Grammar (frequently)
Music (often)
Tiny Cans of Dr Pepper (incessantly)

That's partly what this was for.

~Paul

[jough]

"Y'all" is singular.

"All y'all" is plural.

[jough]

Are there any rules about how to make a contraction out of two or more words that are already contractions?  For instance, would the contraction of "you all are not" be "y'all'ren't"?

My favourite correct contraction is "shouldn't've" for "should not have."

My Uncle Phil contracts "I think not" to just "I thinkn't."

It's funny when he says it.

[AlohaDawg]

You know, I'm going to start complaining repeatedly the next time Jesus or sports are brought up, because I find those things silly I think it's best if people don't discuss them on a board I'm on instead of just ignoring the discussion.

No one said you have to enjoy being here. You're entitled to your cognitive discomfort.

[misterqueue]

I could say the same to you.  My point was that no one is going to be happy with ALL the discussion but as long as it's not downright mean or something I would never go and say that people's posts were stupid and then bemoan it as you have done.

So in essence you could say the same thing to yourself. 

[wombat]

No one said you have to enjoy being here. You're entitled to your cognitive discomfort.

We're suppposed to enjoy being here??

[Bozack]

Does anyone remember that old Batman episode where the chief said Great Caeser's Ghost! so often that the ghost of Julius Caeser came to him and started making him do crimes? It turned out it WASN'T actually thr ghost of Julius Caeser.
And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that MEDDLING BATMAN!

[arkabee]

How can you have a contraction when one of the elements is not a word?

I'm with Aug if only that the logical argument is that 'ya' is a diminutive or lesser form of 'you' to begin with.

i'd drop a tiny can of dr pepper on ya'll like a mick foley elbow to the concrete off the apron but
my computer ate my ability to click links while i was trying to listen to the best band ever, Clutch, on
my old computer using a weird front end for an old version of winamp that i saw recommended in the
comments section of some hipster-off-the-wall webcomic that sucks.

ps
how can you have a word if the word is not a word?