Y’all have fun with that, y’hear?
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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
“yall” melting my brain cells painfully, 1 cell at a time:
Stamets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
mriormro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a second person plural pronoun. Other languages have them. For instance, Spanish has vostotros/ustedes and German has ihr.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
English already has a plural pronoun: “you”. It’s the singular that we’ve lost: “thou”.
mriormro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The nice thing about languages is that they evolve, change, reconfigure, and adapt. They are not sacred things, but tools we use and manipulate. While we may have something similar, the utility needs of our words change over time and over regions. In certain parts of the United States and elsewhere ‘y’all’ has filed in the linguistic gap.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
yeah, I know the utility of the word but it just doesn’t sound nice, I try to restructure my sentences to avoid it whenever possible. just the tone of “yall” has the “trying to seem cool” vibe and it feels like an overfriendly word to use in most scenarios.
Carlo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It doesn’t have the same connotation for everybody, obviously. As a resident of the southern US, it’s just an everyday phrase, and doesn’t carry any “trying to seem cool” baggage.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
yeah obviously
optissima@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Yet the misuse of a colon as a form of sentence punctuation doesn’t hurt more? Talk about arbitrary…
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
wdym?
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Y’all is great and as a foreign speaker it’s really nice
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
y’all is nice but yall isn’t
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
*ain’t