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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's perfectly serviceable as a regionalism for... people from [i]that[/i] 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? [/quote] 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. [/quote]
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