I fucking hate the word "y'all" and I really hate that even non-southern Americans are using it.
@xianc78 Seconded. Fuck's sake.
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.
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.
@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".
> 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 "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.)
> "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.)
@mousewaffen @xianc78 Well, you know, in an office.
@p *I always say