stop butchering my accent

[edgebot]

I hate it when people try and write Southern accents into their fic. Yeah, I know I'm not alone in this, but still. It's always done incorrectly. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG

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[janissa11]

Texas is NOT that different. "Y'all" used to denote a singular drives me absolutely insane. I mean, how hard is it to remember "you all?" "All" not meaning "you singular." Argh. Yes, it is maddening.

Fixing! It's Texas future tense! (Or, well, "fixin'." Because there really isn't ever an ending "g.")

[edgebot]

I didn't think it would be, but I'm so glad to have someone confirm it :)

Fixing is awesome! And you're totally right, there isn't a "g" but that's a whole other can of worms right there :)

I actually started counting the number of words the author dropped the "g" in dialogue versus the words she left the "g" on. I wanted to start ranting about consistency but instead consoled myself with SGA where no one (usually) tries to write accents phonetically.

[bossymarmalade]

I suspect that people who do this are getting it from reading comics -- it drove me nuts whenever Rogue was talking to one person and would still use "y'all"!

[edgebot]

It's been awhile since I've read X-Men fic, but I definitely remember the horror of reading fic where everything Gambit or Rogue said was written phonetically.

[harriet_vane]

I have definitely heard people differentiate between y'all and all y'all in real life, with y'all being used as a sort of generalized singular and all y'all meaning the whole group. But the y'all tended to mean "you but I don't care which one of you does it," as opposed to "you, Roger, who I am looking at."

[edgebot]

I guess it's really the one on one y'all that gets me. It just sounds so wrong! Like the person has suddenly developed multiple personalities and all of them are being addressed.

One might say I have a major hang-up with this : )