I really, really hate this trend of people using y'all to act like they're your friend. It's not just bad parasocially, it's just frustrating because my friends do not talk that way. my branch of english is you guys for informal plural, you all or everyone for formal plural, and often just some shared group signifier for either(such as scouts when I was in boy scouts or cosplayers at conventions). It's just some hello fellow kids material that makes me uncomfortable. No problem with the organic use of the word, but the artificial forced one is just bad.
I'm obviously not right online when it seems right or wrong 100% of the time, but in person when someone from the same area as me with a similar background just drops it for emphasis but otherwise does not use it just clangs. Or when people use it in direct address, which does not sound right to me and I don't see offline.
I really, really hate this trend of people using y'all to act like they're your friend. It's not just bad parasocially, it's just frustrating because my friends do not talk that way. my branch of english is you guys for informal plural, you all or everyone for formal plural, and often just some shared group signifier for either(such as scouts when I was in boy scouts or cosplayers at conventions). It's just some hello fellow kids material that makes me uncomfortable. No problem with the organic use of the word, but the artificial forced one is just bad.
How do you discern the difference?
I'm obviously not right online when it seems right or wrong 100% of the time, but in person when someone from the same area as me with a similar background just drops it for emphasis but otherwise does not use it just clangs. Or when people use it in direct address, which does not sound right to me and I don't see offline.
Sticking it right at the beginning of a sentence like, "Y'all, we need to talk about how the Muppet Babies was problematic" is a dead give away
exactly