I fucking hate the word "y'all" and I really hate that even non-southern Americans are using it.
People used to use it to add some redneck/salt-of-the-earth effect to their speech, and it was an annoying affectation back then. Then the last few years it's gotten picked up by scoldy social justice types that want to sound *ahem* "urban". Every other word that comes out of their mouths sounds like "New England prep school" and then they say "y'all" and it grates on the ears.
@p I've always say "you guys", but that's not acceptable anymore because it's "gendered language". The whole thing makes me wish modern English had two separate second-person pronouns for singular and plural.
@p *I always say
> but that's not acceptable anymore because it's "gendered language".
Yeah, I think nobody actually cares but lunatics. Maybe it's because of where I live, but I didn't ever have to stop saying "you guys".
@p@fsebugoutzone.org @xianc78@gameliberty.club true but it's better than "folx". that's basically like a slur when those types use it
> true but it's better than "folx".
Is it? In one case, they are using a terrible word that they invented by misspelling a normal word, and in the other case, they are trying to sound like they are from the Streets and they are very in touch with the Struggle.
> that's basically like a slur when those types use it
Ha, everything they say sounds like a slur. Like those guys that spent so much time imitating Borat or Beavis or whoever and lost the ability to speak normally without effort, some people default to scolding in duckspeak.
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@xianc78 It just kinda sucks when your language has next to no inflection though, I can sympathise with wanting an explicit plural you
@xianc78 I used to say it a lot because grew up where it would be part of normal vernacular, but now I check myself. Every time I hear it now it sounds so forced.
@xianc78@gameliberty.club i grew up using it and i like it but i don't like non-southerners using it because we just say it cuz its how we talk and they say it because of (i am cronging 10 thousand times) wonkeness and then they act like they just said something so fun and kooky haha! someone should really talk about the differences between northern and southern racism
It's always hilarious hearing someone from CT / WA say "y'all" with incorrect emphasis. They only use it for intersectionality points. ie It's like when they talk to black people like they're puppies.
