…borrowed the camera (thanks rachel!) but had to give it back, so i can’t promise any new videos in the near future.
“you all” ain’t right – a mandy mini
Published March 27, 2008 blogging , culture , favorites , just for fun , my world , people , thoughts on life , video , world 109 CommentsTags: video, y'all, youtube
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i like that you used “fixin’ to” as you were explaining “all y’all.” you need to explain that one in your next lesson.
Holly: fixin’ to definitely needs explaining!!! might need to borrow your mac for that! maybe we can tack it onto the “garage band” day.
I was in Costa Rica for the past week, and trust me the phrase “Whata yaw doin’” stumps even the best English speakers.
Check out this website for more southern linguistics:
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
I was in Costa Rica for a week, and trust me the phrase “Whata yaw doin’” stumps even the best English speakers.
Check out this website for so’more southern linguistics”
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
Holly took my one and only stab. Grr.
I used to my fun of one of my friends for saying that, since it’s not a real word. Ahem.
That was interesting. Thanks for the lesson. Haha.
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! Love “fixin” as well.
y’all let me know how those accents are goin’ – HE HE!!!!
and “fixin’ to” is TOTALLY a legit method of communication – no matter what y’all say. i guess i HAVE to explain it now.
Too funny. I love who you barely cracked a smile and took it quite seriously. All ya’ll better not hate on “fixin’”…I use that word all the time (and I am born and bread Michigander…although I suppose I picked it up from a native Oklahoman).
he he
correction: I love how (not who)…
I think I got it..
Hmmm… I wonder how its going to work here in my Ca lingo.
Y’all going catch some waves, slurp some asada down?”
Lol
It took only two months of living in Texas to pick up “fixin to”, “ya’ll”, “All ya’ll”, even “howdy” as a legitimate greeting. The “aw yaw” was new to me though. Thanks for the edumacation.
you are my hero.
Danielle: someone also sent me an email that they are impressed that i’m not cracking up, and i had to tell her was TOTALLY serious about the whole thing. i actually looked up the linguistic studies done on Southern American English (SAE, for short) – and that’s where i got the info… i was afraid the video would be boring, but maybe that’s because i’m watching it as an authentic native speaker, and all the info i’m throwing out is stuff i’ve known since i could talk. guess there’s a totally other side to the humor of it all. WHO KNEW!?!
oh, don’t worry y’all. i’m so not pickin’ on mandy for using “fixin.” i’m southern and i use “fixin’ to” quite regularly. as in, “i’m fixin’ to cut the light on.” btw, mandy, can you add “cut on” to your lesson list?
damon & heidi: the spam monster ate y’all…. but i rescued you. i’m fixin’ to have to fix that spam monster! argh….
haha i love it. thanks for the laugh. you should do a weekly series on how to talk southern, that would be hilarious.
so, like, will ALL of this be on the test? And if I get ‘y’all’ right, but not ‘all y’all’, do I get partial credit?
Kim: all i’m gonna say is that “aw yaw” need to be takin’ some SERIOUS notes… i’m a BIG fan of pop quizzes! i’m fixin’ to call out a few of y’all to make video responses for this!
i’m just sayin’…
Oh, honey…I got aww of that! Now I’m originally from SE New Mexico…(right near Texas) so, I’m gettin’ it aww. Thanks for educatin’ everyone else. Now do ya’ll get it? OK – I’m fixin’ to get some lunch. And we’ll eat dinner after that….Oh no! Do you eat suppuh?
hmmmm, video response? interesting thought….
i reckon that theres a possibility
Tam: LOL – video response? there will be some serious reckoning if you don’t!
Oh my word! That is so funny. But so informative…thank you. I did always wonder how it was said because when I say ya’ll it is a definite contraction. Doesn’t work, as you well know
I too wait with bated breath for the response from the instigator of all this fun!
HisLife: i’m thinkin’ if we all head over to kassota.wordpress.com & start a protest, she’ll HAVE to respond to this. whaddya think?!?
Ohhh, this is too funny. I sent it to my southern friends.
Thanks for the help (from a California girl).
When i get my voice back – it’s ON!!!
Can I have those slammin’ earrings by the way???
This is EPIC. I had no idea the complexity of such a simple phrase. The South lives on!!!!!
I’m all for it! Away I go!
Sarah! California Girl! NO!!! Don’t buckle under that lit’l Souther Schweetness thang Mandy has goin’ on! Stay true to CA – like – totally fer sure! I’ll stand with you!
Must.
Stay.
Strong.
Markleys: i do what i can to unite the country by presenting a mutual understanding of dialects!!!
and Tam: you’re already crumbling, you just don’t know it yet.
btw, those earrings? i wore them just for you!
Tam had some twang in her day…I remember…I actually miss it.
“fixin”
This is definitely going to become a series
Ahhhh – the vid response is brewing in my brain. I’m laughing already!
Muuuhahahahahaha!
hhhmmmm…. tam did spend a little time in the deep south, didn’t she!?
and i think i might be fixin’ to take donations on a digital video camera so we can rock this series!
You can always sell this clip to “How ta tawk souther fer duhmeeze”!
you’d have a new camera in NO time!
Tam: did you work for that “how ta tawk” company when you lived in the dirty south!?
Clear as mud!!
)
Bert: HA! haven’t heard that phrase in a month of Sundays!
Mandy, you are (sorry for using those high-falutin words). Yaw all doin sump’n importin. Ida Claire yaw gwine have a conniption if’n a damyankee like me caint git hit right?
When yaw was in New York did’ya member to speak with ya hands?
Ed: my grandma talks JUST LIKE your typing!!!!!!!!!! i can hear her voice. especially the “Ida Claire!” HA!
Ed…hahaha! Wonderful
Mandy, I does seem like many of the regional dialects are starting to disappear. On TV almost none of the announcers and commentators speak with an accent. Thirty years ago in a business meeting I could easily tell where people were from by the way the spoke. Now almost every body uses the same pronunciation. I guess it does make it easier for everyone to understand each other.
You are doing important work in keeping your families dialect alive.
If you want to see how our language is evolving just look text messaging. That is how words will be spelled in the dictionaries of the future.
hehehehehehe
perfect! you even used the correct verb…”fixin”
Ed: i’m definitely a child of txt mssging! sorry….
Natalie: girl… you’ve got some TWANG in your videos!
girl, did you just edit your about mandy?
“With her south-Georgia accent still in tact…”
HA! that’s been there for a while…. i don’t know how long…. but a while!
As a born and bred Texan, I have one thing to say:
Ima fixin’ to go to the store. Ya’ll want anything?
Oh yea, I get to greet at my church. Yes, I greet with “Howdy”.
well that is some southern pride i tell ya!
mine would look more like… “with her couch still on her front porch…”
Joe: SWEET TEA SWEET TEA!!!!
Tam: you might be a redneck if your couch is still on your front porch… i’m just sayin’
Joe – “Howdy! Yer fixin’ to get yerself blessed!”
Mandy, then we won’t go into my family tree then! It don’t branch
TAM!!!!!!!!!!! i’m CRYING from holdin’ in the laughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
sawree
Mandy is right.
If you try to pronounce the l’s at the end of all of y’all or y’all, it is a dead giveaway you ain’t from around here.
For the record, Texas is not of the South. Two different countries. There is the South which is Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Carolinas, Florida (or the Deep South). Texas is Texas, through and through.
“God Blessed Texas”
that was too funny!! love it!
Joe you are SO right! I tried explaining this to a Michigander friend once and it was news to her. I thought everyone knew that Texas was its own entity . . .there is a total difference between a Southern accent and a Texan accent!!!
Mandy – maybe you should set up a PayPal donation button so we can all chip in for a camera. This series has to go on!!! ha ha ha
Fer cryin out loud, how in the wurld did y’all keep a straight face??? ever one had to recognise a lern’in! my my my the south is still tryin to rise again…give y’all cridit, persistent as my blood hound chasin a rabbit!
Ya might be a redneck if…that car you reported stolen last summer showed up when you cut your grass!
OMGosh that was hilarious!!!! And I LOVE to see bloggers on video! Then you can “hear” their voice when you read their blogs.
I spent a week in Oklahoma with my grandpa a few years back and I came out of there talking like I was born and raised in Henyretta!
It doesn’t take long! 
Loved the video!!
Leilanni! START the paypal! it’ll be the community camera – we’ll ship it all over the place so we can all make videos!
Darla: i’m not tryin’ to start another civil war – i PROMISE! i’m tryin’ to unite the states by building bridges of communication… let’s all join hands and start building together!
and Brandy: girl!!! when i go home my accent gets as thick as molasses…. if i’m lyin’ i’m dyin’.
“Then you can “hear” their voice when you read their blogs”
I will never read your posts the same again…
oh….the vid ideas are brewing up some GOOD STUFF!!!!
Here in Lancaster County Pennsyltucky, Ya’ll would be equal to youn’s (pronounced yoons)
As in “Hey youn’s guys, here comes a horse with a buggy behind.” (when addressing a group)
or “Youn’s better simmer down and red up your rooms.”(when addressing your children)
Of course don’t forget to throw the cow over the fence some hay once’t.
Here in Lancaster County Pennsyltucky, Ya’ll would be equal to youn’s (pronounced yoons)
As in “Hey youn’s guys, here comes a horse with a buggy behind.” (when addressing a group)
or “Youn’s better simmer down and red up your rooms.”(when addressing your children)
Of course don’t forget to throw the cow over the fence some hay once’t.
praise365: i’ve heard YOUNS before!!! have you heard anyone ask: “is that yorn’s?”
hahahaha I have heard that!
how about did ja eat jet? naw did jew?
I have tears in my eyes over this…LOL!!! Ok, let me catch my breath…I had to share this link with my Texan friend. She sounds like this so much… As someone who has heard Tam voice…I think the twang slips in there every so often…then again, I find most Americans have accents.
Oh and you really need to get a camara on a permanent basis! You are hilarious!
HAHAHAHA! That was the best 3 minutes ever!! You explained it well…and it’s funny that you live up here sounding like that. You must get stares when you’re in Boston. And those earrings are fabulous!
Absolutely loved this!!!! And how refreshing to hear that glorious accent coming from someone who lives here in New England. My husband was a student at your seminary and I haven’t quite lost my Arkansas twang. Hope I never do. What a wonderful tutorial! I believe I will have to share this
haha – I love it. Now that I’m back in the south (Alabama) I’m all about some “ya’ll-ing”
I love the video editing too – great job. And wow – over 70 comments.
“Y’aww ain’t riiight!”
But that cain’t be riight cus i’m-a meaning Y’Aww sing’lr and Y’Aww ain’t a group??
Now Ah’m-a just fuss-dang confoosed?
(From a REAL Southerner! South, Ah-Say – South of the Equator, that is!)
Love how your mouth is moving near the beginning and no words come out!
love <B
You are too funny!! I love it! Glad you straightened out our errant friend …
ooo Faith, those are fightin’ words
NOw I have to get out my dictionary..don’t know what “errant friend” is?!?!
Ummm…Well, I tried watching the video, but it wasn’t captioned so I obviously missed the joke. One of these days, all that YouTube stuff is going to be captioned automatically. Maybe not anytime soon…but one of these days.
TheNor: Tam (my errant friend) typed “you all ain’t right” on one of her posts earlier this week… she was making a poor attempt at the “y’all ain’t right” but slipped into the wrong second-person plural form… “you all” AIN’T the right way to start that phrase…. so, that’s where i’m making fun of her post. i fear, from the stream of trash talk regarding a possible retaliation from her, that i might’ve just picked a fight with the wrong blog-diva!
in Jesus name
Diva: they are NEVER gonna believe that we are QUITE fond of each other and would probably be the BEST of friends if we could just live on the same side of the country….
I know what the video rebuttal will be
inWorship: you DON’T have to rub it in my face!!!!!
Yes I do
Legendary post. However, I feel it is my duty…nay…my responsibility to protect the Queen’s English and let you all know that the correct phrasing of “all y’all ain’t right” or “aw y’aw ain’t right” is actually “you are not correct”. Just so we’re clear.
If anyone needs any more help with anything, for example to how to make a proper cup of tea or why soccer is the real game of football, just drop me a line.
Love: i JUST re-watched the beginning…and you’re SO right. i guess when i’m DEEP in thought about what to say, my mouth just GOES even if there are no words. i had NO idea that i actually DO that. wow……
James: Queen?! what queen? i don’t see no queen around here!
thanks for setting us straight!
Mighty-Min – The Video Camera SEES AWWWWW!
you might want to ‘member that? for the editing? (same goes for you, Devil Diva!
)
love <B
James? The ’standard’ has been set – if you wish to correct the colonials on their abuse of ‘our’ English then i’m afraid a video clip is ‘de rigeur’, Old Fruit! Borrow one if you have to, but you need sight and sound to be taken seriously (y’aww)
And i am afraid one has to correct one – the actual meaning of the original phrase Tam used: ‘You all ain’t right’ is: ‘I think there is some serious mental problem with most of my Blog commenters (myself, sadly, being one of those) to this post!’
Reading the post (See Tam’s Blog) one is forced to the conclusion: She is quite correct indeed
And if i may translate Mindy-min’s video for you a little more…
‘Aww y’aww aint right’ would be more correctly phrased as “everyone single of you is not quite ‘right’ ” (as in ‘are Mad as a March hare’)
Just to be precise
I cannot wait for the next video – whomsoever may post it!
love <B (Showing his ‘roots’)
Crikey, throw another shrimp on the barbie Yaw!
love/james: i’m gonna maintain that i was never claiming to speak in the Queen’s proper English. “where i’m from” was my qualifier… and “where i’m from” we speak Southern American English – a dialect all its own.
when necessary, i can speak the Queen’s – but not for the purpose of this little video.
just wanting to avoid confusion, here, fellas!!! Long live the Queen!
“when necessary, i can speak the Queen’s ”
No you can’t
inW: you are SO trying to pick a fight with me!!!!!!!
Ya, I know…but your far enough away that I probably won’t get slapped
I love it! This is right up this Kentucky farm girl’s ally!
Oops – let’s try “alley.” We Kentucky farm girls do know the difference between “alleys” and “allies,” I promise!
I completely concur with you Mandy i was attempting to set James ’straight’ as he may not have been able to understand your fine Southern Accent ma’am
Like him One does occasionally feel pangs of regret that One’s beloved language does seem to be somewhat ’slaughtered’ by some who still claim their mother tongue to be ‘English’.
Being a natualised Colonial One’s self – from the Antipodes Doncha know? (thanks for making me feel ‘at home’ there Praise365!) One has come to accept that where one is raised has a prime importance in how one believes is the ‘correct’ way one should speak – hence your most elucidatory video that One found most delightful indeed.
Sadly though, since listening to it, One has now affected a very Southern drawwwwl y’awwwwwl
Lawdy Lawdy Lawdy! whatever is One to do NOW???
love <B
You are in trouble. Tam is now talking smack in my email box….watch out. Since you are both my friends…you know I can’t pick sides…but I have got to say, that you totally look hot in that video. For reals, yo.
Thank was so dadgum cute! Ok….that’s my southern word for the day. I love Tam too.
Dang I miss my southern days sometimes!!!
OK – Mandy – you CAIN’T be serious, surely?
Cain’t = c + ain’t? no-no-no-nononononono No! Uh-uhh!
Ain’t comes from the Southern ‘bastardisation’ (’scuse the French!
) of Queen’s English form of ‘are not’… as in: “you (all) are not quaight raight”
Whereas Cain’t comes from a similar root of ‘Can Not’ and NOT ‘c + are not’ which would clearly be ‘care not’ in Q.E.
I DO care!
So you cain’t say: cain’t = c + ain’t as a pronoun – or anything else for that matter!
Clear Y’aww?
See what happens when you throw away the Queens’ English in favour of lesser local dialect? Leads us into ‘air’ (error!)
<B
Love: LOL! i was speaking in terms of pronunciation – NOT meaning. cain’t = can’t… but said as C + ain’t. i shoulda been clearer. thank you for pointing that out. oops!!!!!!!!!!
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