All o' y'all are makin' too big a thang outa this. Sheese!


I just regard it a geographic speech marker*. More in the south than elsewhere.

*My term

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....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

I agree. Period after "you", strike the "all" whether or not the applicants are plural.

On the other hand, BFD

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OK. There you are. Standing there with your crew behind you and you are the spokesperson. You are addressing the 'other ' group... and you make statements such as " here we are and there ___ are. " or " This is for us and the rest is for ___."

Sounds plural enough as is, if you fills in the blanks

'You all' is not good for business communication. Amateur.

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Y'all stop.....

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I agree that it does not reflect schooling that emphasized conventional and proper grammar.

At the same time, I'm not sure how "professional" the home-loan mortgage business really is. There are tens of thousands of them, and that's just in the greater Los Angeles area. Okay, just kidding, but the point is that there are tons of these offices. I don't know that I'd be very concerned about it unless I was going into business with them or something.

Were it my office I would have a cleaned-up form letter and close it with "I sincerely look forward to working together to satisfy your needs." That fits whether it's one or 1,000.

Happy refinancing.

"You all" is just too phonetically close to a truck rental business. An invitation to confusion, I say.

Given that you is both singular and plural in English and "you all" a regional dialect ie, Southern US English slang, it's not "proper" English as the forefathers in the old Isle would speak it. However, while hardly perfect "formal" English in this instance I'd be more concerned with the efficiency and competence of the legal transaction than nitpicking the verbiage.

- Peter.

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He started to write ya'll but spellcheck corrected it to you all.

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