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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Was this post designed to offend all non Texan southerners
Oh! Oh! Lemmy try! Lemmy try!
Ahem.
"Beans do not belong in chili."
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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Bless your heart 😒😒
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Idk but if so, mission accomplished I guess
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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
…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.
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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Is it bad that I'm more bothered by "j'suppose" than the inclusion of "anyway"?
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“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”
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Y'all is not Texan. Y'all is Southern and Texas is Southern wannabe.
Texas is a southern wannabee
See also: Florida.
Florida is so redneck that they crossed a threshold into its own category. Florida Man.
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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: 😂
Really? I've never heard that and I'm in Texas
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Bless your heart
Thems fightin words.
Darn tootin
y'all is second person plural. First and Second person aren't gendered. Therefore, I is also woke
OMG yes! We must make this a thing, make the right speak in caveman to fit their troglodyte nature! Lol
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."
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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the oldest published "Y'all" was from Richmond Virginia in 1856 in the Southern Literary Messenger
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From now on, my pronouns are yall
"language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin"
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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If y'all spent as much time and energy on useless pronouns as y'all spent on advocating for universal healthcare, y'all could have gotten that last doctor visit paid for by y'alls gob'ment and not having to dip into y'alls savings.
Y'all need to check your priorities.
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