@p @xianc78 Y'all, we REALLY need to think about how our language is exclusionary to BIPOC members of the LGBTQIAP+ community. I would really appreciate it if y'all would please be more careful choosing the words y'all use.
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@pwm @xianc78

@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

@xianc78 @p "you guys" is standard here in the Midwest, sometimes just "you" and the plurality is implied by context. My roommate is from Pittsburgh and says "yinz" all the time.

@xianc78

> 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 @xianc78 I like "hey gang" or "hey brothers and sistas"

@jesu @xianc78 Just use a series of racial slurs, then no one will hassle you when you say "Ah, fine, I'll just say 'you guys' instead of 'what up my crackas'."

@p @jesu @xianc78 I tried this approach with "moba" by borrowing the 4chan backronym for it, but it hasn't caught on yet.

@p @xianc78 "Hey cracker, we're going down to the park for a pick-a-nick, can you pass the nilla wafers? thanks cracker!"

@jesu @xianc78
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@p @xianc78 crackers also like hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, and nilla wafers, cracker

@jesu @xianc78 Proof:
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@p @xianc78 also cheese curds

@jesu @xianc78 Everyone likes cheese curds.

@p @xianc78 also fried chicken

@p @xianc78 "you guys" is kind of foreign to me, I use y'all not southern and how I normally sound because I'm lazy.
The other way is like All of you, audiya , sounds like audios which is like Spanish or something so I avoid it to avoid confusion.
I don't really know what my accent is, I just know it's not really southern or boomhauer type, nor Baltimore.

@gentooP @xianc78

> "you guys" is kind of foreign to me,

This is interesting but does require some at least vague explanation of the region.

> I don't really know what my accent is, I just know it's not really southern or boomhauer type, nor Baltimore.

I thought my accent was messed up due to having lived in other states for a big chunk of my yoof, but this placed me firmly in Los Angeles: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html . (I don't know if it still works, I took it years ago.)

@p @xianc78 The link doesn't work, it wants me to sell my soul to the devil for some reason

@gentooP @xianc78 I believe that.

@xianc78 @p a funny life hack is you're actually allowed to say whatever you want no matter what internet cry babies say

@mousewaffen @xianc78 Well, you know, in an office.

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @xianc78@gameliberty.club true but it's better than "folx". that's basically like a slur when those types use it

@shibao @xianc78

> 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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@p @shibao @xianc78 Man even if that was 100% fake I wouldn't fuck around with doing anything remotely close to that in a million years.

@Wolffkran @shibao @xianc78 Well, scripted outcomes, but not fake per se. Like, it's fake the way Jackass is fake.