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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

y'all

I'm not one for inspecting people's language choices and I'm not even from the US, so I don't have a dog in this race... but goddamn, libs using y'all annoys me to no end

Edit: I should have been clearer here. There's lots of varieties of US English which use y'all and that's obviously natural, it's just that I've seen lots of wannabe DC staffer coastal lib types using it in a way that feels kinda condescending and annoying

[–] MovingThrowaway@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] FanonFan@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.

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