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.
@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.
