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If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.

Thanks y'all.

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[-] Badabinski@kbin.earth 8 points 11 months ago

I'll throw in "folks" as another gender neutral option. I say "you folks" all the time, especially in professional contexts. I'm not from the South, but I have family there so y'all is a part of my vocabulary. I use it in more informal situations pretty commonly.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

We are afraid to use common greetings now? How about we all refer to each other as "carbon units"?

[-] dumples@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago

We need a better second person plural in English. Y'all works but its a big language gap

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Hey...

Folks

Friends

Comrades

Everyone

People

Pals

You motley crew

Weirdos

Siblings

Fuckers

..how you doing, wanna go to the movies?

(this is by no means exhaustive list, the point is there are plenty of existing and perfectly acceptable alternatives, pick one, or more, and get comfortable with it)

[-] crazybrain@lemmy.spacestation14.com 5 points 11 months ago

I've heard people say "yous" before.

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[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Having exported myself from the deep South to Yankee land, "Y'all have a good one!" never fails to brighten the day of someone working a cash register.

In general, folks up here really like southern politeness. They think sugar wouldn't melt in my mouth. I get stopped in stores to talk all the time. Pretty frequently, they just give me a discount. I thought Yankees were supposed to be rude, but they're actually really nice in public.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

Trust me there are many more areas that say y'all

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Can "y'all" be singular, since there is "all y'all" for plural?

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

When talking about a group but only one individual of the group is present you can still use y'all.

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[-] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Am I the only one who actually looked for more pixels for this guy?

Anywho, here you go my guy:

Edit: hmmm, Lemmy seems to be compressing it. Here's a link.

[-] Kit 5 points 11 months ago

ITT: Yinzers

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Is guys really needed after youse?

The guys is needed where there's no 2.pl pronoun to distinguish from individual you, but youse fixes that

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

I bought a shirt once in Pittsburgh that says, “Yinz is a gender-neutral p pronoun”

[-] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Only if you man in it a "you people" kind of way - like y'all need to stay with your own kind- or something like that.

[-] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Fwiw, second person is fine as long as there's no misgendering... It's like calling someone by their name

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

As a non-english speaker, I appreciate «Y'all» 'cause it always bug me the absence of a way to reference more than one individual in English.

What you mean «You» is used to reference both one person and a crowd? English is fuck up.

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