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1. xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 12:10:42 JST xianc78

   I fucking hate the word "y'all" and I really hate that even non-southern Americans are using it.

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   • TruthBait (truthbait@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 12:14:10 JST TruthBait

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     Well, bless your heart. @xianc78

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   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 12:16:42 JST pistolero

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     @xianc78 Seconded. Fuck's sake.
     
     People used to use it to add some redneck/salt-of-the-earth effect to their speech, and it was an annoying affectation back then. Then the last few years it's gotten picked up by scoldy social justice types that want to sound *ahem* "urban". Every other word that comes out of their mouths sounds like "New England prep school" and then they say "y'all" and it grates on the ears.
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 12:20:23 JST xianc78

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     • pistolero

     @p I've always say "you guys", but that's not acceptable anymore because it's "gendered language". The whole thing makes me wish modern English had two separate second-person pronouns for singular and plural.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 12:20:42 JST xianc78

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     • pistolero

     @p *I always say

   • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2: (applejack@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 13:12:55 JST applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

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     @xianc78 It just kinda sucks when your language has next to no inflection though, I can sympathise with wanting an explicit plural you

   • arc :blobcatevil: (arc@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:15:13 JST arc :blobcatevil:

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     @xianc78 I used to say it a lot because grew up where it would be part of normal vernacular, but now I check myself. Every time I hear it now it sounds so forced.

   • practically without merit (pwm@gh0st.live)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:47:59 JST practically without merit

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 Y'all, we REALLY need to think about how our language is exclusionary to BIPOC members of the LGBTQIAP+ community. I would really appreciate it if y'all would please be more careful choosing the words y'all use.
     👏 Think 👏 before 👏 you 👏 speak 👏
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:47:59 JST pistolero

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     • practically without merit
     @pwm @xianc78 :venomsnakedemon2:
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   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 17:56:12 JST gentooP

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     • pistolero

     @p @xianc78 "you guys" is kind of foreign to me, I use y'all not southern and how I normally sound because I'm lazy.
     The other way is like All of you, audiya , sounds like audios which is like Spanish or something so I avoid it to avoid confusion.
     I don't really know what my accent is, I just know it's not really southern or boomhauer type, nor Baltimore.

   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 18:54:37 JST pistolero

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     @gentooP @xianc78
     
     > "you guys" is kind of foreign to me,
     
     This is interesting but does require some at least vague explanation of the region.
     
     > I don't really know what my accent is, I just know it's not really southern or boomhauer type, nor Baltimore.
     
     I thought my accent was messed up due to having lived in other states for a big chunk of my yoof, but this placed me firmly in Los Angeles: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html . (I don't know if it still works, I took it years ago.)
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   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 18:54:37 JST gentooP

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     • pistolero

     @p @xianc78 The link doesn't work, it wants me to sell my soul to the devil for some reason

   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:15 JST pistolero

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     • jesu
     @jesu @xianc78 Just use a series of racial slurs, then no one will hassle you when you say "Ah, fine, I'll just say 'you guys' instead of 'what up my crackas'." :bruceforsythe:
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   • jesu (jesu@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:23 JST jesu

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 I like "hey gang" or "hey brothers and sistas"
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:24 JST pistolero

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     @xianc78
     
     > but that's not acceptable anymore because it's "gendered language".
     
     Yeah, I think nobody actually cares but lunatics. Maybe it's because of where I live, but I didn't ever have to stop saying "you guys".
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:57 JST pistolero

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     • jesu
     @jesu @xianc78 Proof:
     cheesebone.jpg
     cheeseburger.jpg
     cheesegift.png
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   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:58 JST pistolero

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     • jesu
     @jesu @xianc78
     tumblr_n80g0nGUda1rhpn4yo1_500.jpg
   • jesu (jesu@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:58 JST jesu

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 crackers also like hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, and nilla wafers, cracker
   • jesu (jesu@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:17:59 JST jesu

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 "Hey cracker, we're going down to the park for a pick-a-nick, can you pass the nilla wafers? thanks cracker!"
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:32:10 JST pistolero

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     @jesu @xianc78 Everyone likes cheese curds.
   • jesu (jesu@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:32:10 JST jesu

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 also fried chicken
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   • jesu (jesu@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:32:11 JST jesu

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     • pistolero
     @p @xianc78 also cheese curds