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[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 159 points 1 year ago

Texas does not have a monopoly on y'all. Y'all is collective, both as a noun, and as ownership. Y'all is Southern for Comrade.

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[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

Was this post designed to offend all non Texan southerners

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Oh! Oh! Lemmy try! Lemmy try!

Ahem.

"Beans do not belong in chili."

[-] escapesamsara@discuss.online 32 points 1 year ago

Ya'll better watch out now y'hear? We don take kindly to that kind'a hate speech 'round these parts. Equal weight beans and beef, you skimp out either and yain't fixin' chili; you might'ina even be inclined to leave for everyone's sake.

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[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Bless your heart 😒😒

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[-] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Idk but if so, mission accomplished I guess

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[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 88 points 1 year ago

I refuse to accept Texas' claim on y'all. Its a word collectively owned by everyone south of the mason-dixon line and I will fight to the death over this.

Signed, floridaman

[-] Intralexical@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

…Am I not allowed to use "y'all", north of the 49th parallel? Do we have to bring back "thou" so "you" can be plural again? Or is this part of the Quebecois plot to force everyone to parler en français donc nous pouvons utiliser "vous"? C'est bien, anyway, j'suppose.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Fun fact:

"Thou" and "you" were the same word.

The "th" sound used to have its own character in written English called the thorn. When typefaces came along, it was excluded and sometimes replaced with a "y."

Also why "Ye" and "The" are the same.

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[-] bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Y'all is not Texan. Y'all is Southern and Texas is Southern wannabe.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Texas is a southern wannabee

See also: Florida.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Florida is so redneck that they crossed a threshold into its own category. Florida Man.

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Stranger, I hope you can beat a full house.

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[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

“You” is also ungendered. There seems to be a common idea that English is missing a second person plural. We have one, it’s “you”. We just stopped using the second person singular. That’s what all those variations of “thee, thou, thy” etc were.

“Y’all” would be a superpluralization. If that’s still not enough we also have the ultraplural form of, “all y’all”

[-] _g_be@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

All y'all's "all y'all" for all and for y'all

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s why conservatives have started to say yim’all and yer’all in order needlessly gender the expression. Can’t believe these folks sometimes.

Edit: 😂

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 13 points 1 year ago

Really? I've never heard that and I'm in Texas

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[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Darn tootin

[-] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago
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[-] ilex@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

y'all is second person plural. First and Second person aren't gendered. Therefore, I is also woke

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

OMG yes! We must make this a thing, make the right speak in caveman to fit their troglodyte nature! Lol

It's actually a contraction from old English or Scots and has been around since 1631. The hicks are using socialist words that aren't theirs.

[-] mycroft@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Y'all is the best pronoun.

It's second person can be used singular or plural, and the difference is all contextual.

It's ungendered and it's makes almost anything feel "more fun."

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

For those of you who aren't woke yet, I just made a fresh pot of coffee.

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[-] gongonzabarfarbin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Y'all Texans can go to hell for trying to claim y'all.

  • Signed a Louisianan

P.s. your El Paso 857 sign can go right to hell too.

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[-] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

the oldest published "Y'all" was from Richmond Virginia in 1856 in the Southern Literary Messenger

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[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

The onlie trans community uses y'all a lot. And howdy and haiii :3

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Y'all was created to serve a completely artificial problem.

English has second person singular pronouns, but for some dumbfuck reason we've deprecated them. It's still maintained in the standard for compatibility with legacy literature but not recommended for new works. If thou talk'st this way, thy speech comes off as archaic/shakesperian/biblical. So we use the second person plural for everything. But this removes the ability to encode context on how many thou art addressing. "You! Go put that fire out." Are you talking to an individual in a group or the whole group?

So the American south turned "you" into the singular form and invented "you all" contracted to "y'all" for the plural form.

Now we just need to fix the first person plural problem, ie "We've just won the lottery!" Does "we" include the listener, or not? English doesn't encode that information; "we" don't have different words for "myself the speaker and the listener(s) and perhaps others" and "Myself the speaker, others, but not the listener."

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago
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[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

From now on, my pronouns are yall

[-] epigone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin"

[-] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

I started using y'all years ago due to its ungenderedness, in part from being in queer spaces. Walking into a room of trans women and enbies and saying "you guys" felt weird.

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[-] twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's also a good substitute for "you guys"

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