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"Y'all"

Dr_Loomis
Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

"Y'all"

This is something that well and truly grinds my ruddy gears.

As an Englishman, I understand this is an American thing, but thanks to it's extensive use on 'social media', it looks like it could be becoming a worldwide 'phenomenon'.

I see it used more and more.

"Hey y'all."

"How y'all doing?"

"So if y'all wanna leave a comment in the section below..."

Has every bloody YouTuber suddenly starting living in the deep south?

As soon as I hear a person utter or post this nauseating term online, my faith in humanity weakens even more.

Anyway, morning all!

Comments

  • I_am_Negan
    I_am_Negan Member Posts: 3,756

    Just a southern thing I'm from the northern part of the states and I never hear it.


  • DrDeepwound
    DrDeepwound Member Posts: 2,557
    edited May 2020

    if yall think this is only a SOuthern thing yall never lived in California LOL

    yall is said worldwide now

  • I_am_Negan
    I_am_Negan Member Posts: 3,756

    Hey ya'll

    Enhance your calm

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    Yep, we Southerners like to use the word y'all.

    You should hear my Southern accent.

  • Fibijean
    Fibijean Member Posts: 8,342

    I'm not even from the US, I'm Australian, but sometimes I use "y'all" just because it's easier and more streamlined than saying "you guys" - and if there's one thing Aussies are good at, it's shortening every word possible because we're too lazy to say the whole thing.

  • Vox_Nocturne
    Vox_Nocturne Member Posts: 545

    "Y'all" isn't that bad, although I never use it. Certainly nowhere near as irritating as using the word "super" to describe absolutely everything!

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

    I think 'super' is just an overused word. Others include 'basically' and 'obviously'.

    Words such as (almost said it): 'Like'. You engage in conversations and it's "I was like-", "He was like-" usually followed by a weird face or an exaggerated "What?". Very common idiot speech.

    But Y'ALL is something different. Whether it's a territorial or a cultural term, it is being used more than ever by a wider range of people. It sounds so forced when somebody suddenly starts using it.

    It's more common than ever.

    "So wadda Y'ALL think? Do Y'ALL like the new content? Y'ALL leave a comment in the comments section below. I'll be interested to hear what Y'ALL have to say. PEACE!"

    Pop Vinyls ahoy.

    Stop.

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    I agree with you on the word "like" being overused.

    I've even been conditioning myself not use that word so much when I speak.

  • Science_Guy
    Science_Guy Member Posts: 2,036

    Y'all is a fantastic and upstanding contraction, it doesn't deserve to be shamed like this.

  • ThisGuuy83
    ThisGuuy83 Member Posts: 1,303

    The sooner y'all get with it, the better y'all be. 😂

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

    2020:

    "Welcome, to Y'allnited States Of America!

  • TheRockstarKnight
    TheRockstarKnight Member Posts: 2,171

    I prefer y'all, but that's mostly because saying "you guys" just sounds weird to me when most of my friend groups are predominantly female.

    Like, I know guys can be used in a gender neutral sense, but still.

    Maybe I should try switching to youse or yinz though.

  • Awakey
    Awakey Member Posts: 3,145

    I live in Texas.

    I cannot help myself, it's so engrained in my mind. I don't have a Southern accent, I just say y'all really often.

  • abbas32
    abbas32 Member Posts: 6

    Is this an english class all of the sudden?

  • I_am_Negan
    I_am_Negan Member Posts: 3,756

    🤗

  • OhMyWords
    OhMyWords Member Posts: 230

    Agreed. It is better to say just you, because it can mean plural or singular. And it is the Shortest! One Syllable like yall but it is 3 letters. Bonus points if you say you to a single person in their group, and they get confused.

  • ShrimpTwiggs
    ShrimpTwiggs Member Posts: 1,181

    Yeah, only morons say it. Am I right, y'all?

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

    The phrase is often used by 'content creators' who have an over-inflated sense of importance.

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    Y'all need to calm down. Language is a living thing and evolves over time. Y'all sound like the people who decried Shakespeare for using the word "elbow" as a verb. The word "meme" was coined in 1976, but I don't hear y'all complaining about it.

  • tixerp
    tixerp Member Posts: 270

    I dunno if there's a correlation or something, but all of my friends who are super into the LGBTQ scene are obsessed with saying yall. None of them are from the south either, so I'm not sure if it's a coincidence. Maybe just it caught on and a lot of people find it funny.

  • Theetis
    Theetis Member Posts: 153

    Language evolves, and th're's nothing wrong with yond. Alloweth people speaketh in the way yond's comf'rtable to those folk, t's not very much yond big of a dealeth.

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

    It's like at work when I get people blatantly putting on fake accents. It's toe-curlingly embarrassing. Last year they were a well-spoken gentleman...now they're a product of 'da street'. Check out an old episode of the Ali G show. That's what we're dealing with.

  • LordRegal
    LordRegal Member Posts: 1,549

    I didn't say y'all at all when I was growing up. Married into a family who moved from the southern US, got so inundated with it that I use it myself now...it's certainly quicker than "you guys" and gets the same point across, so...