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y'all
Y'all doesn't get enough love. It is gender neutral and extremely versatile.
Vosotros agrees.
Ustedes if you're less formal or you live outside Spain π
What a fun way to phrase that. You're not wrong but it's making me giggle.
Or in German: euch
I'm under the impression that you pronounce it the same way this cat looks.
You know... that's about right.
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I still wonder why English (a Germanic language) doesn't have its own pronoun for the plural 2nd person like German (euch) or Dutch (jullie), I think it kinda helps with distinction between talking to one person and talking to multiple people.
The problem is... what pronoun should we choose? I think "yinz" would sound kinda cool, but nobody outside of a very specific spot in the US actually uses it (other than myself I guess).
I agree. It's the plural of "you" that should be the official standard, since it disambiguates "you." It can even be broadened to include larger groups via "all y'all," as in, not just y'all in talking to, but all y'all in the house.
It can replace "guys", but not "man," though.
The plural of you is yous or ye. In Ireland at least.
"You" is already plural and I'll never yield this hill to anyone. However, I'm open to bringing back "thou".
Well, you don't have to yield, because it's correct. My issue isn't that you isn't plural, it's that it's both singular and plural, and therefore ambiguous. IDGAF whether we normalize y'all, or thou in the other direction, or yous as someone else mentioned... but "you" needs to pick a fucking lane.
Thank thou for being someone other than myself thatβs annoyed at English having the same dang word normalized for both singular AND plural for such a common and important word.
It's become the go-to in my company
Do you work with me? I'm in the US south and my EU colleagues love "y'all" and have started using it (ironically or not :) pretty often.
Warms my heart.
I have no hint of a Southern accent, but when I moved here "y'all" became almost an instant part of my vocabulary.
A LOT of my company is remote, but we are headquartered in Providence Rhode Island.
It sounds cringeworthy if you're not American though. The standard way of saying it is "you lot" and other dialects, like mine, have "yous".
Here where I'm from in the US, you occasionally hear a "y'alls" and now I'm going to start using it as a cultural gap between your dialect and mine.
Where Iβm from people just assume youβre a hick is you say yβall. Itβs not very common in the northern, out Midwest of the US, but everywhere in the south.
I can't do it, I don't want to sound like I'm from the South.
If everyone starts using it, it wonβt sound southern any more. Cβmon, you know you want to.
Take it from them!
And, for larger groups, all y'all.
I use y'all a lot and im near Chicago
I've started using it and I'm Canadian.
I've started using it and I'm north of Canada ... In Detroit
Did you know that you can be north of Canada ... in California?
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At a more northern latitude than part of Canada. Detroit is directly north of part of Canada
TIL
What in the world. They need to fix that on the next patch.
Me too, but I'm from 'round Minnesota so it's more like ja'll.
you'uns
Youse if youβre a Geordie.
further down under you may hear "hey, yous lot..."
yinz
For those not in the US south and afraid of being judged, "all" on its own is an option.
"Hi all" is unlikely to raise any eyebrows
"Hi everybody!"
Yeah, nah I canβt get behind how youβse say yβall.
Bingo. I use y'all for everything. Even the singular. It's casual, neutral and relaxed.
Scott the Woz on Lemmy? :o
"Hey y'all, Scott here."
yall sounds super trashy.