tissek@ttrpg.network to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoThe most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore wokemessage-squaremessage-square297fedilinkarrow-up11.37Karrow-down1121
arrow-up11.25Karrow-down1message-squareThe most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woketissek@ttrpg.network to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square297fedilink
minus-squarepythonoob@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down15·edit-21 year agoY’all is exclusive. All y’all is inclusive. If I walk into a party in a house and a group of my friends are there and I say ‘what are y’all doing here?’, I’m only talking to my friends. If I walk into my own house and there’s a party there and I say ‘what are all y’all doing here?’ I’m addressing everyone of the hoodlums in my house. Edit: To the person who down voted yet contributed nothing to the convo, please feel obliged to read up on clusivity in linguistics.
minus-squarechakan2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoI was one of the downvotes. Clusivity, as described in your article does not apply to y’all. It’s You All…it will never include the speaker. It’d have to be something like w’all to apply.
minus-squareArt35ian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-21 year agoWe’re very inclusive in Australia also. ‘G’day you bunch of cunts’ means hello to everyone male, female, known and unknown. We’re very polite over here.
minus-squarepythonoob@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoHow very nice of all you cunts over there
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoAll Y’all cunts, we just talked about this.
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down4·1 year agoGetting pressed enough about a single downvote to make an edit is cringe.
minus-squarepythonoob@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoSaying that things other people do are cringe is cringe.
Y’all is exclusive. All y’all is inclusive.
If I walk into a party in a house and a group of my friends are there and I say ‘what are y’all doing here?’, I’m only talking to my friends.
If I walk into my own house and there’s a party there and I say ‘what are all y’all doing here?’ I’m addressing everyone of the hoodlums in my house.
Edit: To the person who down voted yet contributed nothing to the convo, please feel obliged to read up on clusivity in linguistics.
I was one of the downvotes. Clusivity, as described in your article does not apply to y’all. It’s You All…it will never include the speaker.
It’d have to be something like w’all to apply.
“Anyway, here’s wonderw’all”
We’re very inclusive in Australia also.
‘G’day you bunch of cunts’ means hello to everyone male, female, known and unknown.
We’re very polite over here.
How very nice of all you cunts over there
All Y’all cunts, we just talked about this.
Whoops. Thanks y’all
Getting pressed enough about a single downvote to make an edit is cringe.
Saying that things other people do are cringe is cringe.