Unhappy that "y'all" is everywhere

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[Post New]07/19/2022 18:44
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Anonymous
I'm from Kentucky. I invite y'all to take things up a notch and start using "all ya'll".
[Post New]07/19/2022 18:47
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Anonymous
Bless your sweet heart, OP.
[Post New]07/19/2022 19:10
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm from Kentucky. I invite y'all to take things up a notch and start using "all ya'll".


[Post New]07/19/2022 19:49
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:It's perfectly serviceable as a regionalism for... people from that region. But why is it everywhere now? What is the attraction to people who either are able to speak standard English or have their own native regionalisms? I would vastly prefer "youse guys" or even "yinz" if there were some reason to choose a folksy When people adopt "y'all" on purpose, what is the image they're aspiring to?


Y’all is my “own native regionalism”. I’m not “aspiring to” anything in particular — beyond mutually understood communication. The only time I’ve heard “youse guys” would have been from a character like Archie Bunker. I’ve never heard anyone say “yinz”. OP, it’s fine for you to prefer your own ethnic regionalisms. It’s also fine for the rest of us to do the same. If you’re in the DC area, you’re actually in the South, although transplants who interact mostly with other transplants might not realize —or value— that.
[Post New]07/19/2022 20:37
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I like it because it's not gendered.


+1. Though I'd replace "like" with "use".
[Post New]07/19/2022 20:48
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Anonymous
My very country (rural MO) MIL says “yinz”. I grew up in NC and hate “y’all,” particularly when it’s said by non-Southeners.
[Post New]07/19/2022 20:49
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the DC area and have always said y’all.


+1
Though I never, ever write it out.
[Post New]07/19/2022 20:52
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Anonymous wrote:I like it because it's not gendered.


+1 I was coached to say y'all or you all instead of guys in a professional setting
[Post New]07/19/2022 20:53
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:We lack a formal 2nd person plural in English. "Y'all" is, in my opinion, the best thing we have. I would never say "youse guys," how odd to even suggest it.

-from the west coast

+1 Also from the west coast
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:07
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Anonymous wrote:We lack a formal 2nd person plural in English. "Y'all" is, in my opinion, the best thing we have. I would never say "youse guys," how odd to even suggest it.

-from the west coast


We have one. It's the word you.
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:25
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the DC area and have always said y’all.


This.
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:28
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We lack a formal 2nd person plural in English. "Y'all" is, in my opinion, the best thing we have. I would never say "youse guys," how odd to even suggest it.

-from the west coast


We have one. It's the word you.


That’s not a formal 2nd person plural, now is it?
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:31
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the DC area and have always said y’all.


+1

Although imo “you guys” is/was more popular, y’all was always common too.
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:35
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Anonymous
It sounds super country + rednecky OP. Reminds me of an old hillbilly cartoon from the comic pages, Snuffy Smith.
[Post New]07/19/2022 21:35
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the DC area and have always said y’all.


+1
Though I never, ever write it out.


I grew up in Frederick and have always said you guys, or you all in a more formal setting.
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