If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.
Thanks y'all.
Y'all reminds me of the bible belt. I'm not transgender but I am queer and now and then it makes me uncomfortable.
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Guess I'll have to ask the person I'm addressing in the future.
Thanks comrade.
Y'all = you all, which is gender neutral.
Also that map is missing the Chicagoland y'all exclave.
Second person never has a gender in English. Saying "you" should also be fine, or "thee" if you feel like getting your quaker on.
Special requests notwithstanding - the platinum rule here is just to accommodate whatever you reasonably can.
I'll throw in "folks" as another gender neutral option. I say "you folks" all the time, especially in professional contexts. I'm not from the South, but I have family there so y'all is a part of my vocabulary. I use it in more informal situations pretty commonly.
We are afraid to use common greetings now? How about we all refer to each other as "carbon units"?
We need a better second person plural in English. Y'all works but its a big language gap
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Having exported myself from the deep South to Yankee land, "Y'all have a good one!" never fails to brighten the day of someone working a cash register.
In general, folks up here really like southern politeness. They think sugar wouldn't melt in my mouth. I get stopped in stores to talk all the time. Pretty frequently, they just give me a discount. I thought Yankees were supposed to be rude, but they're actually really nice in public.
Can "y'all" be singular, since there is "all y'all" for plural?
When talking about a group but only one individual of the group is present you can still use y'all.
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ITT: Yinzers
Trust me there are many more areas that say y'all
Am I the only one who actually looked for more pixels for this guy?
Anywho, here you go my guy:
Edit: hmmm, Lemmy seems to be compressing it. Here's a link.
I bought a shirt once in Pittsburgh that says, “Yinz is a gender-neutral p pronoun”
Only if you man in it a "you people" kind of way - like y'all need to stay with your own kind- or something like that.
There are pride buttons that say Y'all means all.
Is guys really needed after youse?
The guys is needed where there's no 2.pl pronoun to distinguish from individual you, but youse fixes that
Fwiw, second person is fine as long as there's no misgendering... It's like calling someone by their name
I’m on the border of y’all and you guys
Your comment gives me the urge to create other maps you can comment on so that I can triangulate your position.
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