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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why bother with importing y'all when we already have yous (or youse depending on how you want to spell it)? Or you could just treat 'you guys' as gender neutral, it effectively is these days with how people use it.

[โ€“] boletus 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Youse is too damn bogan for my taste

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

absolutely this

youse and torlet

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair enough, it does have associations there. Pretty sure I'd toss y'all in the same basket though if I heard anyone trying to make it a thing...

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an Australian, why bother importing "y'all" when everyone is already "mate"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was going to say something similar, but thinking everyone is "cunt".

Yes, it's gender neutral.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Too right, mate.

[โ€“] imaqtpie 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do we have yous/youse? According to my understanding that's technically not a real word yet, it's slang.

2nd person singular used to be thou/thee back in the middle ages, but it all eventually melded into you.

I feel like y'all is the newer American version of 2nd person plural, while yous/youse/yinz are the non-American English counterparts.

I have always used you guys in a gender neutral manner historically, but people occasionally got offended by that. So I started using y'all several years ago and it's been going pretty good. Although I did initially spell it like ya'll until someone corrected me on reddit ๐Ÿ˜