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[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago

Maine I think loops back around to y’all territory…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm from "you guys" but I've lived in "y'all" and now I'm forever team "y'all," regardless of where I'm living.

It's the best export from the south, except maybe Texas brisket and pecan pie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

If you live on the line, or move north/west, it's now "you all".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

People where I am from call everyone "you guys" - men, women, trans, doesn't matter, everyone is just "you guys" even when it's a woman addressing a group of women.

The literal meaning isn't gender neutral, but in actual practice, it 100% is.

As for "y'all" or "you all", I don't see how it could possibly be interpreted as offensive to any gender.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

As for β€œy’all” or β€œyou all”, I don’t see how it could possibly be interpreted as offensive to any gender.

I think "we don't take kindly to y'all" to a trans person would likely be offensive. Beyond that though, you're probably okay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"You People" is the one to be avoided

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

Yeah I don't see that one going over well anywhere

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

I mean, neither "you" nor "all" is a gendered term in any way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We need a better second person plural in English. Y'all works but its a big language gap

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

I've heard people say "yous" before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I know. I hate it. I don't know why

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all reminds me of the bible belt. I'm not transgender but I am queer and now and then it makes me uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Guess I'll have to ask the person I'm addressing in the future.

Thanks comrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I call everyone brah πŸ€™

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all is the opposite of offensive for trans people. I lived in the south for a while, and I now use y'all specifically to be inclusive. I wouldn't say "you guys" is offensive to trans women, but I would say for me and likely other trans women it briefly brings to mind being misgendered in the past, so I would call it a small kindness to ube as gender neutral as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks comrade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Trust me there are many more areas that say y'all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Where does this put Scott the Woz?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

People who don't even live in the USA saying "y'all" is pure pain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I say "all of y'all" and make a point to really emphasize the "'".

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (7 children)

"y'all" fills a legitimately useful gap the English language has. Other languages have a word like this.

Edit: also something cool I just found out, some languages have a way to disinguish "we" (you and I), and "we" (me and the rest of us, not you). It's called clusivity and is missing from European languages. Many indigenous languages of the Americas and Oceania have this, as well as Vietnamese and northern dialects of Mandarin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not a gap in every dialect! "Ye" is another plural second person used in Ireland

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Hear y'all hear y'all, Reggie King from o'er the holler brought pawpaw moonshine for the weddin'

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not from the south and use "y'all" all the time. Find it very useful for filling in a gap that English has and slightly faster than saying "you all". Its gender neutral in my opinion.

Never once thought of it as offensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Y'all is gender neutral, ~~do~~ so I imagine it's fine

Edit: typo lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

We're talking about Southern US pronunciation so much that I read your comment from "do I" onwards as if it was being spoken like a Southern Belle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I bought a shirt once in Pittsburgh that says, β€œYinz is a gender-neutral p pronoun”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 hours ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Yinz goin aht n abaht in dahntahn Picksburgh to watch da Stillers game?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yall is the genderless southern hospitality greeting.

No bullshit no hate. Only yall

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've used y'all intentionally as a gender neutral term for years in the south.

Lately I've even seen "y'all means all" used as a pride slogan in the south.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Awesome! Thanks comrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Should be fine πŸ‘

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