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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I always "y'all" and I'm not even from the south.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Y’all gives modern English the second person plural it would otherwise be missing

[–] moody@lemmings.world 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always been fond of "yinz", despite never having been to Pittsburgh

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Yinz welcome to try our chipped ham ‘n’at regardless

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yousa bombad, meesa like muy muy!

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 2 months ago

I hate you with every fiber of my being

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

"You" used to be that word, but mfs didn't wanna say "thou" anymore so "you" has to pull double duty now

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Ireland it's still very common to use 'ye' for you plural.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

Hear ye, hear ye.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Missing? It is that part of speech! 😁 "You all," the thing it conjoins, is proper English and the accurate thing to say. We do have it. We just refuse to try harder to be less patriarchal bc "guy" has less syllables. And most of the time it's preceded by "you" anyway, so not even shorter. (If I'm wrong, someone please correct me)

I take the time to correct myself in meetings, "when can you guys- ahem you all" - no apology, bc I'm doing my best, and demonstrating in my actions.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only two things the South got right were "y'all" and biscuits and gravy.

And chicken and waffles. And BBQ.

Honestly, not actually a fan of y'all, but they have some fantastic food.

[–] Spyro@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try some chicken and waffles when you get the chance - 5000 calories have never tasted so good.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Chicken and waffles are about as authentically southern as General Tso’s chicken is authentically Chinese.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In parts of the south "y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sandalbucket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“Would ya’ll like a soda?” Vs. “Would all ya’ll like a soda?” - one of these means everyone shares one soda, the other means each person gets their own - but I don’t know which is which :O

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You misspelled coke. Nobody says "soda" in the south, coke covers that. You have sprite coke, root beer coke, etc.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

"Would y'all like a coke?"

"Would all y'all like cokes?"

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

As a super non-Southern USA guy, anytime I drop a “y’all” into convo, my Southerner friends say I’m not doing it right because I simply substitute all “you” instances with “y’all”.

I guess these friends don’t come from the singular-y’all part of the South.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Y'all is a really good pronoun and I think more people should use it.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It makes everyone sound American. This is sometimes okay.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a Canadian, I use y'all, but usually only if the word 'motherfuckers' immediately follows it.

As someone from the west coast, I disagree.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I like comrade more, but y'all is shorter.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

All zones can be the yall zone

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

i’m from australia and i’ve adopted yall for exactly that reason

it also makes me real happy that some very transphobic shit heads would be furious if they knew that “their word” was part of the solution to gender neutral terminology