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danny fonts was some weirdo that used to always write his name on local walls with gay remarks...thought it was funny for anyone from around my way....till homeboy was a little more fucked up than i expected and he got caught raping people down the tracks, im been actually meaning to change it but i dont know how

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I can just tell. You front constantly and you front about skating.

 

 

 

I don't even talk about my skating on here you dumb fuck. :lol:

 

 

 

 

And if you think I'm fronting about anything, feel free to head out this way next time your mommy and daddy let you break off some of that trust fund money for vacation time.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburghese#Vocabulary

 

Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in southwest Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians. (See: Pittsburgh English.)

 

Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones, which is probably the result of contact between Irish and English. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tu, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following therefore is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [ju wʌnz] > you'uns [juʌnz] > youns [junz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪnz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form, there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania—which is why this pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you'uns, "y'uns" yunz, yuns, yinz, yins or ynz.

 

In other parts of the U.S., Irish or Scots-Irish speakers encountered the same gap in the second-person plural. For this reason, these speakers are also responsible for coining the yous found mainly in New Jersey and the ubiquitous y'all of the South.

 

Yinz's place as one of Pittsburgh's most famous regionalisms makes it both a badge of pride and a way to show self-deprecation. For example, a group of Pittsburgh area political cheerleaders call themselves "Yinz Cheer," and an area literary magazine is The New Yinzer, a take-off of The New Yorker. A DJ crew of Philadelphia-based Pittsburgh ex-pats bills itself as Philadelphyinz. Those perceived to be stereotypical blue collar Pittsburghers are often referred to as Yinzers.

 

* n'at a "general extender" (McElhinny 1999; Johnstone, Bhasin and Wittkofski 2002; Wisnosky 2003; Johnstone and Baumgardt 2004; Johnstone, Andrus and Danielson 2006). (Note: Pronounced like en-ˈat with very short n sound, or 'gnat, as in the insect )

 

Example: "We bought a notebook and some pencils n’at."

 

Further explanation: Reduction of and that, which can mean "along with some other stuff," "the previous was just an example of more general case," or (at least in Glasgow, Scotland) something like "I know this isn’t stated as clearly as it might be, but you know what I mean."

 

Geographic distribution: Southwestern Pennsylvania (see above citations).

 

Origins: Possibly Scots-Irish. Macaulay (1995) finds it in the regular speech and narratives of Scottish coal miners in Glasgow, a principal area from which Scottish settlers emigrated to Northern Ireland, and from there, to the American colonies.

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