Texas does not have a monopoly on y’all. Y’all is collective, both as a noun, and as ownership. Y’all is Southern for Comrade.
Comrade
W’all
And poetry isn’t always literal.
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Y’all isn’t necessarily plural either.
The plural of Y’all is “All Y’all”
Was this post designed to offend all non Texan southerners
Idk but if so, mission accomplished I guess
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds
I refuse to accept Texas’ claim on y’all. Its a word collectively owned by everyone south of the mason-dixon line and I will fight to the death over this.
Signed, floridaman
…Am I not allowed to use “y’all”, north of the 49th parallel? Do we have to bring back “thou” so “you” can be plural again? Or is this part of the Quebecois plot to force everyone to parler en français donc nous pouvons utiliser “vous”? C’est bien, anyway, j’suppose.
Is it bad that I’m more bothered by “j’suppose” than the inclusion of “anyway”?
C’est un trait quebecois, je pense… les cowboys fringants la dit (“anyway”), donc je ne sais, c’est probablement ok… J’ai entendu “j’suppose” avant aussi, vraiment, je pense…? Est-ce que ça n’est pas comme “I’spose” en anglais? Reverso a beaucoup des examples pour “j’suppose”, quand même. (Je ne suis pas quebecois ou francophone, si tu ne peut pas voir pour quelque raison; je suis un idiot anglophone.)
“I’spose” est facile. “J’suppose” est dur à dire, parce qu’on ne peut pas dire “j’s” comme “i’s”.
J’ai dû sortir mon français rouillé. Merci pour la pratique. Et oui, j’ai utilisé Google.
“I’spose” est facile. “J’suppose” est dur à dire, parce qu’on ne peut pas dire “j’s” comme “i’s”.
Eh, je ne sais. C’est plus difficile que “I’spose”, oui, mais je pense que c’est ok… Les cowboys fringants dit aussi “j’te”, “j’rentre”, et probablement les autres consonnes aussi, donc, généralement, je l’imagine comme si on bredouille un peu.
J’ai dû sortir mon français rouillé. Merci pour la pratique. Et oui, j’ai utilisé Google.
Et la même à toi! Mais j’utilise Google pour traduire du français vers l’anglais, après avoir premièrement écrit la français avec Collins et quelquefois Reverso (mon professeur français a toujours aimé ça). Je fais des corrections alors peut-être. Ainsi, Google me dit si j’ai fait des grosses erreurs, mais je pratique mon français tout seul.
Take it from the south; it will kill them inside.
Well, I’m doing my best to import it into the New Zealand vernacular, we are South of the 49th.
So, uh, I dunno.
I hear it all the time. I use it sometimes
-just south of the 49*
It’s not that it can’t be used elsewhere. We just don’t want Texas to take all the credit.
You can use yall but the "L"s are quieter the further north you go such that they’re silent near the border
“How ya doin” is simply plural above the 49th
So long as we can still claim “Y’all’d’nt’ve”
It’s our greatest contribution to the lexicon and extremely efficient.
You can’t, that’s Appalachian territory.
It’s also second person plural (or singular), second person is always ungendered.
First and second person, plural and singular are never gendered: I, you, we, you / y’all / all y’all. The only pronouns that are gendered are the third person singular: he / she / it. Third person plural (they) is also ungendered.
The most common form (at least where I’m from) of second person plural behind “you all (y’all)” is gendered: “you guys”. It’s used in an ungendered way increasingly commonly, but “guy” is still gendered to plenty of English speakers.
“Guys” is sometimes gendered, sometimes not. There really isn’t a female-gendered equivalent to “you guys”. You could say something like “you gals”, but that’s just not used. Most often you could say “could you guys follow me?” to a group of women and nobody would think twice about it.
Everyone gets y’all. It fills the dumb gap in English where the plural of you is you. Now if we could only get a singular neutral 3rd for people that isn’t also the plural.
E: Or we could start pronouncing They singular like latchkey, for a thee sound. So we can get fun words like they’s (thees). It will also make English even more confusing for newbies. What’s not to love?
As someone who grew up in North Carolina, I agree. Texas might be the first thing some people think of when it comes to “southern” states, but it doesn’t get exclusive claim to the quirks of the whole region
I have never thought of Texas as southern (yes, I know they’re the south-most state). Western movies were in Texas, so Texas is western (don’t judge my very clearly faulty logic). South Carolina is south for sure. Georgia. Mississippi and Alabama are no brainers. But Texas? That’s where western cowboys live… sorry… cowyalls.
“You” is also ungendered. There seems to be a common idea that English is missing a second person plural. We have one, it’s “you”. We just stopped using the second person singular. That’s what all those variations of “thee, thou, thy” etc were.
“Y’all” would be a superpluralization. If that’s still not enough we also have the ultraplural form of, “all y’all”
All y’all’s “all y’all” for all and for y’all
Don’t forget y’all’d’ve as in " y’all’d’ve been fine with just
y'all"
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.
Getting pressed enough about a single downvote to make an edit is cringe.
Saying that things other people do are cringe is cringe.
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
So then “All y’alls” (not all y’all’s) would be ultrasuperpluralization?
Sounds right.
Presumably “y’all’s” would be the second person superplural possessive.
In New England (the best England), we have “youse”.
We also have “Ya’” where we elide the entire ending and you need to determine plural vs singular from context. For example, “Ya’ can’t get thea, les’ ya been there befoa.”
Y’all is not Texan. Y’all is Southern and Texas is Southern wannabe.
Texas is a southern wannabee
See also: Florida.
Florida is so redneck that they crossed a threshold into its own category. Florida Man.
too weird to live… too rare to die…
Seriously, I can’t believe people try to say its not really the south. Like its literally the furthest south you can go in the US.
It’s like Austria. Sure, technically they’re German, but they’re their own thing
“Austria is German(y)” was pushed by a very specific group for a very specific purpose.
The word you want is Germanic. There is a very important distinction between the national and ethnic or cultural terms here.
Thank you, seriously wasn’t trying to make fascist arguments, I promise. Just trying to make a comparison and why certain things can’t always be grouped together
Goddamn don’t let Austrians hear you just called them German
Hawaii would like a word.
Please, they are like middle earth.
Stranger, I hope you can beat a full house.
If you use both hands, it’ll take half as long.
Is it the salsa or is it getting hot in here?
As a Texan we are not southern ;)
We are sort of western. But yea too late to the party to be southern imo.
Depends. Texas exists as a state in part because southern US farmers ran out of land to grow cotton in. A good chunk of Texas is just an extension of the south. Then again, a good chunk is an extension of Mexico. Tejanos don’t get the credit they are due for the formation of the Republic.
All’a Y’all better stop clowning on Texas y’all.
Who cares? Like really.
That’s why conservatives have started to say yim’all and yer’all in order needlessly gender the expression. Can’t believe these folks sometimes.
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Really? I’ve never heard that and I’m in Texas
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Wait, like, for real?
Sounds made up to me
Literally never heard that and I live in texas
It’s an Abilene expression.
Well you’re an odd man stranger but you yee a good haw.
0% true. Also Texan, and not just any Texan, rural Texan until recently. This is nonsense
y’all is second person plural. First and Second person aren’t gendered. Therefore, I is also woke
OMG yes! We must make this a thing, make the right speak in caveman to fit their troglodyte nature! Lol
What state is this?
North Carolina
Also known as the best Carolina or at least the less awful one. Seriously though, fuck South Carolina.
North Carolina once outlawed State officials mentioning or acknowledging climate change exists, to the detriment of their own coastal cities. We could also discuss bathrooms if you want. I think NC ought not be pointing fingers about who is better.
North Carolina is only the way it is because of ridiculous gerrymandering so perhaps we shouldn’t be negative and discouraging of people who want it to be better
Well I DID add “or at least the least awful one”. I know that NC is far from perfect, with some instances of truly horrid policies, but compared to SC it’s almost downright progressive lol
I went to South Carolina once. For the eclipse a few years ago.
We flew into Charlotte, stayed there for a night, then Greenville SC for a night (to be in totality), and back to Charlotte for a couple of days.
Crossing the border from NC to SC was less like crossing state lines and more like crossing the DMZ or the Berlin Wall. Just…a totally different word on the other side of that line.
Best part was that I got to try out cheer wine. Also there was a guy in front of me at the concession stand (we saw the eclipse from the Greenville Zoo) on the phone with someone. He was trying to tell that person he was in the “food line” but the other person kept hearing “Food Lion”, the name of a local grocery chain.
Although a couple of different guys saw me sweating my ass off in the zoo and offered me a “cool rag”. I had no idea what that was and it sounded disgusting so I politely declined…but in retrospect I have to appreciate their hospitality.
Next eclipse, I’m going to Austin.
It’s actually a contraction from old English or Scots and has been around since 1631. The hicks are using socialist words that aren’t theirs.
*ain’t theirs
You uncultured swine. Ain’t is a contraction of am not. Am only goes with I. I ain’t going to accept illiteracy.
Y’all, it ain’t theirs
(The South had a significant surge of Scottish immigrants)
(They’re a fuckin “liberal” monarchy.)
For those of you who aren’t woke yet, I just made a fresh pot of coffee.
Hmmm, fresh pot ! Thanks, I’ll have two ounces
Use metric units! Damn gun monkey!
Uuh, Yea, uhm -two, uuhhh… two metric kilograms of european cannabis, please.
An ounce is approximately 28 grams, so you’d probably want more like 56g of wacky tobaccy.
Y’all is the best pronoun.
It’s second person can be used singular or plural, and the difference is all contextual.
It’s ungendered and it’s makes almost anything feel “more fun.”
Y’all Texans can go to hell for trying to claim y’all.
- Signed a Louisianan
P.s. your El Paso 857 sign can go right to hell too.
All y’all Texans.
Arkansan here. That’s about right. God damned Texans.
The onlie trans community uses y’all a lot. And howdy and haiii :3
And folks/folx!
Because they demonized every other greeting as inherently evil and now they’re only left with weird, archaic English phrases.
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Trans people are normal too.
But are texans ?
sorry, by normal I meant people from non-LGBT groups 😭
I know. No Miku fan shall suffer injustice of misunderstanding!
Y’all was created to serve a completely artificial problem.
English has second person singular pronouns, but for some dumbfuck reason we’ve deprecated them. It’s still maintained in the standard for compatibility with legacy literature but not recommended for new works. If thou talk’st this way, thy speech comes off as archaic/shakesperian/biblical. So we use the second person plural for everything. But this removes the ability to encode context on how many thou art addressing. “You! Go put that fire out.” Are you talking to an individual in a group or the whole group?
So the American south turned “you” into the singular form and invented “you all” contracted to “y’all” for the plural form.
Now we just need to fix the first person plural problem, ie “We’ve just won the lottery!” Does “we” include the listener, or not? English doesn’t encode that information; “we” don’t have different words for “myself the speaker and the listener(s) and perhaps others” and “Myself the speaker, others, but not the listener.”
M’y’all and m’y’ain’t
Ah, compound contractions. Yeah that’ll work. We’ve already got y’all’ve and y’all’d’a.
Can’t forget about y’all’dnt’ve.
The first person plural of we is we’uns.
heard many you-uns growing up around the south.
the oldest published “Y’all” was from Richmond Virginia in 1856 in the Southern Literary Messenger
