Y'all understand what Y'all means

I don't know how many people do not know what this simple Phrase Y'all means. So I'm at work and I pass by a group of people. Normally I'll say "Are you doing alright today/tonight Sir/Ma'am" if it's just one person but then when I pass a group of people I'll say "Y'all doing alright today/tonight?"

I don't know how many time's someone asked me what Y'all means. What part of Y'all don't y'all get?

so there are many simple-minding people who doesnt know the conjunction of you+all? xD
oh well. i pick 'yessuh' :P

IT'S AN EVIL EVIL EVIL WORD THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST!!! DIE DEVIL WORD!!!! TAKE THAT YOU WINGED WORD OF SATAN!!!!

If you can't tell, I much prefer to say the words you all, it's not that hard. It's quite simple and rolls right off the tongue. pfffttttt :P

I'm a Southerner Born and Raised so I'm used to things like Y'all Yessuh(Yes Sir) Backer(Tobacco) wit fur(What for) Oh'yonda(Over there).

Y'all is easier to say than You All. It's basic knowledge, there is less syllables in y'all than in you all meaning less work for the mouth.

yet those freaking English Lit. teachers start bitching at you for using 'incorrect grammer'.
Motherfreak! xD

Fuck you, I'm a Texas native, I know what the fuck Y'all means, I just prefer to speak err...type more eloquently.

hello my fello Texan!

and how are "y'all" doing?! :P

Fuck me? Already did tonight, but thinks for reminding me. As for typing you all, I normally do that but for reasoning unknown to me my mouth refuses to say you all phonetically as you all.

I use yall and I'm from the North. Why? Cuz it's simpler, yessuh it is.

Dude I was raised by a Northerner and she's never said that word in her life even if I do live below the Mason Dickson line. Grr it's evil I say!!!

Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

What she said.

If you are honestly too lazy to say one extra syllable then there is something wrong.

When u are in Malaysia with many broken English guys around here you hear that word all the time lol, and even people with good English can't understand that wat a joke , lol :lol:

I don't like "y'all," but I don't like "you all" either. It just doesn't sound good to me. I prefer "Hey" or "Everybody" or "HEY BITCHES!"

Not understanding "y'all" doesn't make a bit of sense, and it has nothing to do with where you're from. It's a simple contraction, even if it is incorrect. Hell, "y'all" sounds almost identical to "you all."

Also, what dålif said. The context should definitely give it away.

Eh, noone uses proper english. Probably not even the Queen, and it's the Queen's Enlgish.
I've lived half my life in Virginia and half in Michigan, an in both places people sound funny to me, although Michigan accents are much more annoying.
I'd rather deal with "ya'll"s and "you'n"s than have someone talk through their nose at me.

Don't forget the "Eh?"

You bring up two important things: One, the "Queen's English," the fact that English came from England, and two, that people in different areas sound different.

Personally, it seems like 90% of all people from England butcher the English language. I don't mean to disrespect people, I'm not saying English people sound stupid or anything, but most English people I've heard talk run words together, don't enunciate, skip syllables, etc. For the country that invented English, they sure know how to tear it apart.

But that's okay. To the English, we Americans are fucking up the language royally. And that's cool. We all just talk funny. No problem with that. One party just can't say to the other, "You're ruining the language, stop it!"