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Thanthe
12/21/20 11:23:30 AM
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Yinz:


Settle this once and for all.
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The Utility Man
12/21/20 11:24:15 AM
#2:


Ok, so yinz does actually mean something.

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azuarc
12/21/20 11:28:45 AM
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It's a ways of saying youse guys, but I very rarely hear anyone use it.

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Peace___Frog
12/21/20 11:29:07 AM
#4:


Saying it in text is stupid, saying it out loud is perfectly acceptable and often encouraged in this part of the world to show others that you associate and empathize with the working classes

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FL81
12/21/20 1:01:59 PM
#5:


This topic title is the first time I've ever heard of this word, but now that I've seen it here, I'm sure it will pop up elsewhere.

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Drakeryn
12/21/20 1:03:08 PM
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I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.
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banananor
12/21/20 1:11:59 PM
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it's the same as y'all and i think it's a pittsburgh thing, although i guess it's permeating some internet communities

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Maniac64
12/21/20 1:12:08 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.


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banananor
12/21/20 1:12:48 PM
#9:


http://robslink.com/SAS/democd90/wordmap_yinz.htm#smooth

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Jesse_Custer
12/21/20 1:13:02 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.

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wallmasterz
12/21/20 1:20:17 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.


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Murphiroth
12/21/20 1:21:04 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.

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colliding
12/21/20 1:43:00 PM
#13:


You're only allowed to use it in person, out loud, in Pennsylvania. And only if you're a local.

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The Utility Man
12/21/20 1:43:42 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.


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redrocket
12/21/20 1:44:11 PM
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banananor posted...
http://robslink.com/SAS/democd90/wordmap_yinz.htm#smooth


Im calling shenanigans on this map. I grew up in one of the counties labeled as most common, and yet...

Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.


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NFUN
12/21/20 1:48:13 PM
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In regards to that map (which tracks Twitter usage) and only seeing it used in Corrik posts, remember:

Peace___Frog posted...
Saying it in text is stupid

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VengefulKaelee
12/21/20 1:54:19 PM
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I had a boss from Pittsburgh so I've actually heard this spoken aloud and got somewhat used to it at one point
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xp1337
12/21/20 2:01:13 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.

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Turducken
12/21/20 2:08:28 PM
#19:


banananor posted...
it's the same as y'all

Literally shaking rn
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th3l3fty
12/21/20 2:26:51 PM
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it's the same as y'all except it sounds dumb
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Forceful_Dragon
12/21/20 2:52:28 PM
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My definition is "a word that literally only Corrik uses, for some reason"

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LordoftheMorons
12/21/20 3:06:29 PM
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Im now imagining the Fat Dog song from Community with yinz replacing fat dog

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Johnbobb
12/21/20 3:11:48 PM
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colliding posted...
You're only allowed to use it in person, out loud, in Pennsylvania. And only if you're a local.
As a PA local I've very rarely heard it used out loud, and I've seen it written a few times (enough to know about it before seeing Corrik's posts)

that being said, it's a dumb word and I hate it

go find another jawn awhile

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UshiromiyaEva
12/21/20 3:16:48 PM
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It's an exclusively verbal world that Corrik uses in text because he knows it annoys people.

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PrivateBiscuit1
12/21/20 3:35:38 PM
#25:


I grew up in the Pittsburgh area.

Yinz is the worst thing ever. But I will forever support "jagoff".

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Hbthebattle
12/21/20 3:39:06 PM
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Drakeryn posted...
I've never heard it said out loud, and only seen it written in Corrik's posts.


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Janus5k
12/21/20 3:43:24 PM
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Eh, heard it enough going to school in Pittsburgh that it doesn't bother me.

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Peace___Frog
12/21/20 3:51:28 PM
#28:


PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area.

Yinz is the worst thing ever. But I will forever support "jagoff".
Jagoff is definitely appropriate to use in text form yeah

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Reg
12/21/20 3:52:52 PM
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It's dumb (And frankly, pretentious in spite of its origins) as hell to use it in written text. I would imagine that verbally it's not that bad though.

Y'all is bad too but it doesn't have the "what the fuck is this word" disadvantage because it was a meme before memes were a thing (being the stereotypical "HEY I'M A US SOUTHERNER" tic in media) so more people tend to know it. But it's still bad.
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NFUN
12/21/20 3:56:27 PM
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Reg posted...
It's dumb (And frankly, pretentious in spite of its origins) as hell to use it in written text. I would imagine that verbally it's not that bad though.

Y'all is bad too but it doesn't have the "what the fuck is this word" disadvantage because it was a meme before memes were a thing (being the stereotypical "HEY I'M A US SOUTHERNER" tic in media) so more people tend to know it. But it's still bad.

"Y'all" also a pretty intuitive contraction, unlike "yinz", which seems like it was intentionally made up for unfathomable reasons
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PrivateBiscuit1
12/21/20 4:14:43 PM
#31:


Yinz is supposed to be short for "You guys."

But then people say "Yinz guys" so fuck it all to hell anyway.

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redrocket
12/21/20 4:19:33 PM
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
Yinz is supposed to be short for "You guys."


Yes, but, that is not intuitive at all.

Yall is.

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neonreaper
12/21/20 4:39:05 PM
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I thought it was you ones

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XImperialDragon
12/21/20 5:02:56 PM
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I never heard this before until I moved near Pittsburgh.

Now I'm aware of it, and I wish I could go back to not knowing it was a thing.

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Xiahou Shake
12/21/20 5:05:26 PM
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I get the "z" coming from the end of "guys" but where the hell is the "in" supposed to come from in this contraction? It feels purposefully obtuse.

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NFUN
12/21/20 5:25:42 PM
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Xiahou Shake posted...
I get the "z" coming from the end of "guys" but where the hell is the "in" supposed to come from in this contraction? It feels purposefully obtuse.

"You guys" -> "You'ins" -> "Yinz"

Bad slang to worse slang
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LordoftheMorons
12/21/20 5:29:44 PM
#37:


NFUN posted...
"You guys" -> "You'ins" -> "Yinz"

Bad slang to worse slang
"You'ins" makes no sense either!

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Peace___Frog
12/21/20 5:32:27 PM
#38:


If the etymology makes you feel better, you can pretend it went from young ones to youngins to yunz to yinz

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NFUN
12/21/20 5:33:31 PM
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LordoftheMorons posted...

"You'ins" makes no sense either!

No, but at least seems like it has the meaning it wants to get across. I'm not sure if it has a specific etymology either. Could be from "You ones", which is stupid but that's the territory we're dealing with here
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redrocket
12/21/20 5:41:10 PM
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For what its worth I have heard youins spoken irl (still very rarely) but never yinz.

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TomNook
12/21/20 7:55:53 PM
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It's almost as dumb and unintuitive as "finna".

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Drakeryn
12/22/20 3:21:42 PM
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honestly, the weirdest thing in this topic isn't the "word" yinz

it's people's insistence that there's a word that can be properly spoken out loud but is somehow taboo to put in writing
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DeepsPraw
12/22/20 4:14:11 PM
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I'm yinz-neutral. Would never use it myself but it doesn't bother me if someone does

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Peace___Frog
12/22/20 4:23:35 PM
#44:


TomNook posted...
It's almost as dumb and unintuitive as "finna".
AAVE has far more legs to stand on than odd regional dialects

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Corrik7
12/22/20 6:33:36 PM
#45:


PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area.

Yinz is the worst thing ever. But I will forever support "jagoff".
Nobody even says jagoff here. It's literally the biggest misnomer I have ever seen. People say jackoff. Becausing jacking means pissing for Pittsburgh people and saying "You are really jacking me off" is a typical thing to hear here when someone is pissing someone off. No one says jag.

That said, if you think yinz is stupid then you think y'all is stupid also. They are both just made up basically contractions used to express the you plural.

You All - Y'all
You Ones - You'ns - Yinz

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UshiromiyaEva
12/22/20 7:13:00 PM
#46:


Corrik7 posted...
You Ones

Excuse me??

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Murphiroth
12/22/20 7:17:43 PM
#47:


Corrik7 posted...

That said, if you think yinz is stupid then you think y'all is stupid also.


Incorrect.

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Turducken
12/22/20 10:35:47 PM
#48:


Corrik7 posted...
That said, if you think yinz is stupid then you think y'all is stupid also.

Does not check out.
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KingButz
12/22/20 11:39:19 PM
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Except "you all" is something that almost everyone says and "you ones" is something that almost nobody says
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Corrik7
12/23/20 3:24:34 AM
#50:


KingButz posted...
Except "you all" is something that almost everyone says and "you ones" is something that almost nobody says
I have never in my life said you all. Want to know why? Because we say yinz which has the same usage.

If you don't have a problem with that, what is the difference.

Sounds like people with superiority complexes who have to be better than others over their word uses when they perfectly make sense and are fine.

I bet you are a real hoot when you tell people they are morons because "lol" means "laughing out loud" and not "lots of laughs" that some use it for and call people morons because as kids their made up words for Christmas songs said "football" instead of "monopoly" for a reindeer game.b

Lol.

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