“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”
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 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."
the oldest published "Y'all" was from Richmond Virginia in 1856 in the Southern Literary Messenger
From now on, my pronouns are yall
"language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin"
I find it’s also singular and plural.
Checkmate, nobody
Share this to scare a conservative
Y'all posers.
You want to be inclusive like we did down in Tennessee, right all'y'all?
Its not woke. If its been around for awhile, its not woke. Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.
"Trigger" is a woke word when you say "Im so triggered by that". However in this context "Johnny, do not pull down that lever, it will trigger the breaker box" is not woke.
Tbh, I've heard more y'alls in the San Francisco Bay Area than in Texas (I've live din both). Granted I lived in an immigrant-heavy place in Texas that I didn't even live in for that long.
I had an ex that made fun of me non stop for saying "you all"
I'm Texan. I say y'all quite often. Subconsciously. But when I think about it, it always seems weird. Like if I TRY to use it then it always seems wrong.
I've always used y'all when greeting strangers because of this very reason.
People should leave "y'all" alone. It doesn't belong to anyone. It is a natural contraction of "you" and "all" that several cultures have independently produced as part of their vernacular.
I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y'all because it's ungendered!
What about you'ins?
Being against wokeness is another word for being racist basically.
