"You guys" is non gendered for all the people in regions who use it but I understand why people who don't use it feel gendered by it when it's said to them.
But the point of my comment was this feels more like cracker using AAVE to talk down.
I believe this person is from Texas, where y'all is a standard cracker term. I'm from Texas as well and I feel like I'm from bizarro world because here saying y'all makes you sound white. It seems like outside of the south is where y'all is AAVE.
It's been a normal word in the south forever. Outside of the south it's been pretty normal among black people. Black vernacular English has gained more prominence over the past few decades I think.
because it's gender neutral. similar thing with folks(/folx, ugh) In some cases it's also used to be condescending/ironic, plus s just love appropriating turns of phrase from black people
i have a very vague memory of a 90s cartoon doing a 50s pastiche where the bathroom signs said cats and something else. not sure if that was a joke or if that usage of cat has contextual gender
White person y'alling POC protesters on why what they get from the ruling class is what they deserve
MLK should have just voted blue
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More yinz erasure...
In my part of Ireland we say "ye" for a plural you, like "how are ye doing?" Some people in Dublin say "yous" or "yis"
Argh matey
yous is also still in use in philly!
Death to America
"You guys" is non gendered for all the people in regions who use it but I understand why people who don't use it feel gendered by it when it's said to them.
But the point of my comment was this feels more like cracker using AAVE to talk down.
I believe this person is from Texas, where y'all is a standard cracker term. I'm from Texas as well and I feel like I'm from bizarro world because here saying y'all makes you sound white. It seems like outside of the south is where y'all is AAVE.
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I think you mean youse guys?
Thank you. At least someone around here knows how to speak English.
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Pittsburgh salute
'You' second person plural and 'thou' is second person singular. Retvrn
I am not American. Why are Americans constantly using “y’all” now?
It's been a normal word in the south forever. Outside of the south it's been pretty normal among black people. Black vernacular English has gained more prominence over the past few decades I think.
Read as: "the fuckin settlers won't keep our vernacular out their damned mouths"
because it's gender neutral. similar thing with folks(/folx, ugh) In some cases it's also used to be condescending/ironic, plus
s just love appropriating turns of phrase from black people
There is a bad wiff of gone off mayo of it now alright. The constant use of folk in lefty writing is annoying too.
Better than 'You people'.💁♂️
we should appropriate from new jersey instead. i'm gonna start saying "youse"
is "cats" acceptable?
This is "dawg" erasure
i have a very vague memory of a 90s cartoon doing a 50s pastiche where the bathroom signs said cats and something else. not sure if that was a joke or if that usage of cat has contextual gender
My wife's got Pennsylvania family that says "yinz"
I have never once heard 'yinz' in casual conversation; is that actually real or is my leg getting yanked
It’s real
It's real. Only the old folks say it though. The younger people say "you guys" mostly.
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No, southeast PA actually
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:cringe:
"folks" is gender neutral
so is people?
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y'all is a perfectly cromulent word
It's a legitimately useful linguistic feature for a language to have a plural form of "you" so I fully support y'all becoming mainstream