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Jan-21-2005 06:07

For all those budding sleuths out there I need you to answer me a question, who or what is Neurocam? I know this may sound simple, but believe me these people weave a mysterious web.

Feb-23-2005 06:30

The Neurocam cards were sent as an attachment to an email I recieved from Neurocam. I just printed them out.

Feb-23-2005 12:52

Have ya'll ever thought that this website could be a scam to extract information from you???

Feb-23-2005 13:32

Madame TBird, I believe it is "ALL ya'll"

Feb-23-2005 23:18

I wouldn't go around opening a safe either how do you know some nutzo didn't plant a bomb in there or something you could have gotten blown sky high. No thanks Ace my friend your a little to trusting. i'd think twice before you do something for them again although they proably already know all about you now.

Feb-28-2005 12:11

Either way, you wanna put it JoJo I'm with Skylar. Doesn't matter since ya'll ain't proper grammar anyhow. Sounds awfully fishy to me.

Feb-28-2005 20:20

No it would not be all ya'll because that would be double negative. Besides I was making a reference on an individual basis. So yes it should have been just what I said ya'll & you. Guess you've never been below the Mason-Dixon line before.

Mar-1-2005 11:46

This is an interesting discussion on English, but I think it depends where you're from. I was in the Caribbean for six months, and there they say y'all. A double negative wouldn't rule out what JoJo's saying though - slang abounds in double-negatives.

Mar-1-2005 18:27

I can't see how "y'all" is a double negative, or "all y'all."

"All y'all" would be repetetive, perhaps, as "y'all" = the contraction of "you all," as far as I understand, the informal plural "you" which we don't formally have in English but which some other languages do have.

Mar-2-2005 21:47

Wow, a free lesson in english about y'all. What happened to neurocam.

Anyway, in the books I've read, I always thought of it as y'all=you all.
It's slang and doesn't matter much to me...

Mar-3-2005 04:52

I'm far from being an English expert, but I figure it was said right, in this case it's ya'll. I see where the suspicion comes from for it maybe being all ya'll - but I can't figure where the double negative would be in all ya'll.