Current Events > The gentrified "Y'all" is becoming the new nervous "lol"

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CRON
06/15/22 11:01:59 PM
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I see it all the time on Twitter, especially from people who are nowhere near the South or flyover country. They just say "y'all" excessively like it makes whatever they're saying more folksy and personable.
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viewmaster_pi
06/15/22 11:02:44 PM
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yeah, ya'll, folks, etc. i don't get it

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bsp77
06/15/22 11:05:00 PM
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I say y'all a lot. But I am from the South

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DespondentDeity
06/15/22 11:06:01 PM
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We say yall in Wyoming

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Smashingpmkns
06/15/22 11:07:25 PM
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Y'all has just replaced "you guys" which is fine.

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CRON
06/15/22 11:08:31 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Y'all has just replaced "you guys" which is fine.
The plural "You" requires the same, if not less energy to say.
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viewmaster_pi
06/15/22 11:08:32 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Y'all has just replaced "you guys" which is fine.
y'guys

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wanderingshade
06/15/22 11:11:08 PM
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Ya'll is everywhere. Ya'll has been in the Midwest for over 20 years.

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CRON
06/15/22 11:13:20 PM
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wanderingshade posted...
Ya'll is everywhere. Ya'll has been in the Midwest for over 20 years.
Not in wealthy coastal Northeast/West Coast communities where privileged people, usually (for some reason) white women inexplicably love using it despite demonizing Southerners as yokels.
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The_Creep_2020
06/15/22 11:17:12 PM
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Yall guys

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Solid Snake07
06/15/22 11:23:53 PM
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y'all is a great word for informal conversation, I don't have a problem with anyone "appropriating" it.

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averagejoel
06/15/22 11:25:38 PM
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how can words be gentrified exactly?

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Axiom
06/15/22 11:27:12 PM
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averagejoel posted...
how can words be gentrified exactly?

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