“Now how many of y’all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don’t matter… of course unless they are trash for Biden & great for Trump!”

Who speaks like this?

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      I think she starts with the pundit route first, taking on less and less prestigious media outlets.

      Then she releases a sex tape and tries to build a reality TV career.

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      While it would be better for America if she never held office again, she’s still young as far as a career politics and clearly shopping for power wherever she can find it. I’m guessing she’ll try for smaller office somewhere. City Council maybe Mayor of some really red small city.

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    Who speaks like this?

    That’s your main take-away from this article? Criticizing an African-American for using some African-American Vernacular English?

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      I wouldn’t even call that African American vernacular. The only word I see there that looks strange is ‘y’all’ and that’s more like Southern vernacular. This is tame stuff as far as language goes.

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        Nah, we’re taking y’all back as a gender neutral replacement for “you guys”

        I use it in a professional setting now even.

        Strangely, it keeps everyone happy, no one has ever object to y’all and it’s grammatically perfect.

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          It’s actually a significant flaw in English that there’s no generally accepted 2nd person plural pronoun. There’s probably another language in the same boat but I’m not aware of one personally.

          Currently in the running are:

          • Y’all (favored in the south)
          • Yous (favored in the north, particularly the northeast)
          • And the somewhat awkward “you all”, the only one that’s officially correct

          For anyone who speaks a language other than English the missing pronoun is a pretty glaring thing.

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            My wife and I have been learning more German and it has ‘euch’ which is analogous to y’all. It took me a while to get that one worked out because it’s baked into the language instead of being a kind of slang hack for what English is missing.

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            English is a terrible language, and I say that as a native speaker.

            It’s a language from an isolated island that only the lower class spoke for centuries. For generations English royalty didn’t even speak English.

            So the commoners just did whatever they wanted with it.

            It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

            The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

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              It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

              The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

              This is amusing but I’m not sure it’s accurate. Even in French (or other Latin languages) the words differ.

              Vache = Boeuf Cochon = Porc Poule = Poulet (as in English, chicken is the same)

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      Is that the case? Because I conjured an image of a white southerner. I lived in Tennessee for a while, so this seemed natural to me.

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      L take, it was criticizing the use of “Bobo” and general patterns of writing that aren’t fit for a political analysis.

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        The person whose tweets are being quoted is US Representative Jasmine Crockett

        Texas Democratic Rep Jasmine Crockett remarked early on Monday morning, “Before I go to bed, I thought it would only be fitting to send ‘thoughts & prayers’ to my colleague, Lauren Boebert. It’s my understanding that she placed 5th in her first straw poll of the election cycle.”

        She continued, “Now how many of y’all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don’t matter… of course unless they are trash for Biden & great for Trump!”

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        You are only allowed to do political analysis if you sound like you came from the same factory that made all the other commentators.

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    Do you think that now she would finally be embarrassed?

    I don’t Think that If having someone Grab her boobs while she rubs his crotch in a crowded theater and seeing it on national television didn’t do it, nothing will.

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    So if she loses the primary for that seat, is she allowed to run in another district? Or is it too late at that point?

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    Only 117 votes total?

    If the GOP wants, they can swoop in and pay a small number of people to vote her to the top. Mind you, I don’t know that the GOP actually wants her to continue on the national stage?

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    Bobo, that’s sort of an insult to the other chimps out there. They at least are smart enough to stay out of congress.