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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I’m from Australia and I’ve started calling all groups of people yall because it’s gender neutral… very unaustralian term, and I love so much the irony of iconic southern terms being used to support trans activism

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (16 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Youse is too damn bogan for my taste

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

absolutely this

youse and torlet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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...

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