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It's a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE
Having grown up with it I honestly think it's weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun.
Yeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it
I get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about "folks". Maybe we just need to start saying "Comrade" publicly instead.
You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn's party leadership.
Here's a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4
I feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay
I like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn't get generalized.
There's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.
Agreed
Embrace your inner Philadelphian
Embrace "yous"
Synthesis: Yous'll
Paul "Yous'll" Muad'Dib Atreides
Some cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the "dialects" of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer's LTI.