On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:11:29PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > hello y'all, > > > I'm amazed there are girls on this list. In fact, I don't see that it > > matters, we're all dorks who just wanna hack. I know if I use the term > > "guys" I mean it more like "y'all" which is what I used to say when I was > > in the service but that sounds funny up here in the north country. > > I personally think "y'all" is a useful linguistic construct, which > otherwise is lacking from the English language. the German 'ihr' means > roughly the same thing as "y'all", and they use it quite a bit. > I fail to see why English should lack a good term for "all of you", > when other languages have it. Submit a feature request, or just write your own term! -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.