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[–] jack@hexbear.net 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

White person y'alling POC protesters on why what they get from the ruling class is what they deserve

[–] hexinvictus@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

MLK should have just voted blue

[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Yall is the only non gendered second person plural pronoun. Much better than saying "you guys".

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

More yinz erasure...

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my part of Ireland we say "ye" for a plural you, like "how are ye doing?" Some people in Dublin say "yous" or "yis"

yous is also still in use in philly!

Death to America

[–] jack@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Much better than saying "you guys".

"You guys" is non gendered for all the people in regions who use it but I understand why people who don't use it feel gendered by it when it's said to them.

But the point of my comment was this feels more like cracker using AAVE to talk down.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I believe this person is from Texas, where y'all is a standard cracker term. I'm from Texas as well and I feel like I'm from bizarro world because here saying y'all makes you sound white. It seems like outside of the south is where y'all is AAVE.

[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

True. Hell, I can't even bring myself to say y'all because it sounds so fake coming out of my mouth.

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"you guys".

I think you mean youse guys?

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Thank you. At least someone around here knows how to speak English.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Pittsburgh salute

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

'You' second person plural and 'thou' is second person singular. Retvrn

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I am not American. Why are Americans constantly using “y’all” now?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been a normal word in the south forever. Outside of the south it's been pretty normal among black people. Black vernacular English has gained more prominence over the past few decades I think.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Black vernacular English has gained more prominence over the past few decades I think.

Read as: "the fuckin settlers won't keep our vernacular out their damned mouths"

[–] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

because it's gender neutral. similar thing with folks(/folx, ugh) In some cases it's also used to be condescending/ironic, plus crackers just love appropriating turns of phrase from black people

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is a bad wiff of gone off mayo of it now alright. The constant use of folk in lefty writing is annoying too.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better than 'You people'.💁‍♂️

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we should appropriate from new jersey instead. i'm gonna start saying "youse"

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

This is "dawg" erasure

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have a very vague memory of a 90s cartoon doing a 50s pastiche where the bathroom signs said cats and something else. not sure if that was a joke or if that usage of cat has contextual gender

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

fuck I totally thought that was a young Grandpa Simpson

[–] jack@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My wife's got Pennsylvania family that says "yinz"

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have never once heard 'yinz' in casual conversation; is that actually real or is my leg getting yanked

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's real. Only the old folks say it though. The younger people say "you guys" mostly.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Okay, older folk slang, that makes sense. I'm just here like "wh????? I've known hella people from philly and never once heard that, fuck y'all mean" but that lines up better.

[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Must be from the Pittsburgh area.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

No, southeast PA actually

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You is both singular and plural, back in old english there used to be "thou" but they decided they didn't need it... now they decided they needed it again idk

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

y'all is a perfectly cromulent word

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

It's a legitimately useful linguistic feature for a language to have a plural form of "you" so I fully support y'all becoming mainstream