> 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. English does have a term for 'all of you': 'you'. 'You' is both plural and singular, depending on the context it's used in. 'ihr' auf Englisch is 'you'. Just playing the devil's advocate here :) I personally prefer 'y'all' as well. Although, it sounds strange when said out loud, IMO. Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu