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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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
Everyone gets y'all. It fills the dumb gap in English where the plural of you is you. Now if we could only get a singular neutral 3rd for people that isn't also the plural.
E: Or we could start pronouncing They singular like latchkey, for a thee sound. So we can get fun words like they's (thees). It will also make English even more confusing for newbies. What's not to love?
It's also second person plural (or singular), second person is always ungendered.
First and second person, plural and singular are never gendered: I, you, we, you / y'all / all y'all. The only pronouns that are gendered are the third person singular: he / she / it. Third person plural (they) is also ungendered.
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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”
Y'all is exclusive. All y'all is inclusive.
If I walk into a party in a house and a group of my friends are there and I say 'what are y'all doing here?', I'm only talking to my friends.
If I walk into my own house and there's a party there and I say 'what are all y'all doing here?' I'm addressing everyone of the hoodlums in my house.
We’re very inclusive in Australia also.
‘G’day you bunch of cunts’ means hello to everyone male, female, known and unknown.
We’re very polite over here.
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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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This is another reason I really should switch to Linux.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, Y'all.
Bless your heart
Thems fightin words.
It's actually a contraction from old English or Scots and has been around since 1631. The hicks are using socialist words that aren't theirs.
(The South had a significant surge of Scottish immigrants)
(They're a fuckin "liberal" monarchy.)
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.
Arkansasan here. That's about right. God damned Texans.
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Y'all was created to serve a completely artificial problem.
English has second person singular pronouns, but for some dumbfuck reason we've deprecated them. It's still maintained in the standard for compatibility with legacy literature but not recommended for new works. If thou talk'st this way, thy speech comes off as archaic/shakesperian/biblical. So we use the second person plural for everything. But this removes the ability to encode context on how many thou art addressing. "You! Go put that fire out." Are you talking to an individual in a group or the whole group?
So the American south turned "you" into the singular form and invented "you all" contracted to "y'all" for the plural form.
Now we just need to fix the first person plural problem, ie "We've just won the lottery!" Does "we" include the listener, or not? English doesn't encode that information; "we" don't have different words for "myself the speaker and the listener(s) and perhaps others" and "Myself the speaker, others, but not the listener."
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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
I'm not even in America amd I use y'all. So it's clearly not Texan.
I'm not even in the UK and I speak English.
From now on, my pronouns are yall
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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You lot? I use you lot in place of y'all, because I can't bring myself to contract you and all together.
Y'lot
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Checkmate, nobody
As is Pennsyltucky's "Y'inz."
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