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It's so strange that this is even a thing
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It's You are all
I think that follows the rules of contractions by using an apostrophe to signify missing letters.
However, I'm not American, but I thought it was written as "Y'all".
In UK English "you'll" is "you will".
Yeah I was super confused too haha
Nope. You'll is commonly and I'll even say exclusively read as 'you will'. As in I've never seen or noticed it used as 'you all'.
Y'all is more understandable and fitting. It's a colloquial southern expression with a quaint twang to it to boot that augments the point.
You'll be happy to see an example of it's common UK usage
I'm also not American. But autocorrect changed it to You'll so I went with it.
Anyway, I think it's perfectly understandable from context.
Nope. You'll is commonly and I'll even say exclusively read as 'you will'.
Y'all is more understandable and fitting. It's a colloquial southern expression with a quaint twang to it to boot that augments the point.
You are all is mostly shortened to y'all as well. This would be a very informal usage, and y'all should probably not be used in any professional correspondence.
Example: you are all basic would be y'all basic.
I thought "you all" was y'all? "You are all" should be y'all're, right?
Why would you miss the chance to double up on contractions?!
Yeah, "y'all're basic" works, but "y'all basic" works too. It's common to drop the verb in this context, as it's implied.
It common with poorer-educated communities, but it not correct.
"Correct" isn't really a thing with language.
Language is constantly changing and evolving. The rigid rules we are typically taught in grade school are less rigid than we're led to believe--in the end, "correct" language is whatever works to convey information from one person's head into another.
In this case, dropping the verb doesn't impact our ability to understand the meaning. It's called null copula and you probably do the same thing in other contexts (e.g., "You coming?").