That makes sense, it’s using “y’all” as a singular that seems wonky to me.
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I agree. I use y’all when I wanna get folksy. It isn’t the Southern version, but rural Midwest.
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That would definitely make me wonder “What is this guy talking aboot”?
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Hey, what’s up y’all? I’m from y’all-ville. I am a flaming LIBERAL and I like democratic socialism! And tacos!
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Yeah, I am kinda enamoured of that yo, discussed further up, fits well with y’all as a singular…
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The only problem I have with “yo” is that it’s already in use as a different pronoun in Spanish-speaking communities so it’s bound to lead to extra confusion.
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Is that like the Italian io?
Realized it’s something I can Google, and yeah it is.
The only thing is it’s likely to be the only word a Spanish speaker might be confused about in a mostly English sentence?
My mother tongue is English, learned to speak others, I’m not qualified to say how much of an obstacle that is to anyone else.
To avoid unnecessary apostrophes, I propose to spell it “yawl”. I hope this will ketch on, and the schooner the better.
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You mean y’all bet, eh?
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I’m irish. It took me a long time to switch from using “ye” (pronounced yee) to “y’all” for plural.
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Ah, my former stomping grounds…
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I mean I cringe at “hey y’all” and all, but I cringe a lot more at “Hey Ya!”
What about the linguistic abomination that is “y’all’s’”? (Granted, that’s more of an east Texas thing.)
(Don’t get me started on “all y’all”.)
But hey, in the immortal words of Shock G, talk how ya like. I’m not the arbiter of language. I don’t think any more/less of a person based on how they talk - I’m more concerned about what they are talking about. (That was a completely unplanned twofer in song references.)
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What have you got against Beyonces and Lucy Lius?
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I just really hate that song. (Blame it’s inescapable hyper-saturation in the early aughts.)
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Fair enough. I stopped listening to music radio in the nineties after hearing Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains played in a row, so “Hey Ya!” was something I chose to listen to and controlled how often I heard it. I totally get the burnout effect
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In Alberta, it’s just you bet.
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Lifelong Massachusetts resident here: I started using “ya’ll” instead of “you guys” 3-4 years ago. It’s a good idea and it’s fun to say, especially “how’re all ya’ll doin”
You people has history with racism, sad but true. It casts the group you’re talking to as “others”… it’s almost like saying “your kind”
In the United States, this expression, however intended by the speaker, has sometimes been interpreted as indicative of racism when used in discourse with those of a race different from the speaker’s, or of discrimination on an ethnic or religious basis in analogous situations.
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