I'm wondering about a certain phrase which I use without thinking about. One of my developers whose first language isn't English pointed it out, and it left me thinking if I've been saying it wrong. Essentially I'm trying to say,
Let me know what all of you think / Let me know what you all think
but I naturally say,
Let me all know what you think
When I read it slowly it sounds odd, but that could just be because I'm thinking about it now.
Anyway, is this wrong?
Mike
Best Answer
Let me all know what you think.
In this sentence "ALL" is an optional element (vocative) used to reflect the person(s) addressed and related to ”YOU" appearing in the later half of the sentence. Words like this occur any where in the sentence and rather, fitting it to say, evaluating lebel of 'you'.
You are, darling, incorrigible.
In the poster, LET is used in a non standard way to infuse a kind of invitation/request as in the sentence below :
°Let me see.
ALL, appearing detached from 'you',becomes a noun itself and functions like 'darling' of the example above.
It conveys the meaning--all of you tell me what you think.
I don't know how such expressions sound to native ears but Indian languages abound in such usages.