Agreed.
I’m originally from Gaston County, North Carolina, which is RIGHT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF THE BIBLEBELTED SWEET TEA DRINKING FUCKHOLE, and I said it all of my life up until I moved to the coast. Nobody says it unless they want to get beat up.
Fucking.
Thank.
You.
It’s like, I hear it at home, and I hate it. If I’m calling for people, I say “hey you guys” or “hey guys”, but “ya’ll” is like…wat?
It pisses me off to no end.
Oh wow I wonder how it would feel to be as sophisticated as you are! How intelligent and classy!
I wish someone had just told me how much of a bumpkin I was, and am, because I learned to speak in local dialect! If only I, too, had been fortunate enough to live on the coast, where evidently I could have been curbed of my shameful habit by roaming bands of people who would “beat me up” for saying “y’all”! Astonishing! Perhaps a tour of the “coast” (would love to know which) would help me become acquainted with a better, more acceptable American English.
I was so ashamed by your shrewd linguistic analysis (“but “ya’ll” is like…wat?”) that I decided to quickly gather some information on the extent of this awful social problem. Luckily, Wikimedia provided a map of the areas where the phrase “y’all” is especially common.
So we could really grasp the scope of this issue, I did a quick search of the populations of these contraction-blighted areas. The results are grim. A full 25% of the US population is need of serious linguistic intervention, and fast!
These figures aren’t good. With 25% percent of the US population admitted “y’all”-sayers, you have your work cut out for you: it will take quite a bit of time to cure the ignorance of 77,441,911 people! You have quite a lot of educating to do. However, I’m confident that with your help we can learn to curb our ways and quit being such moronic shitstains!
thank you…..
this is one of the few things that make me socially anxious about going to college on the west coast. hipster that I am, I say things like “y’all” and “dawg” semi-ironically, and because i’ve picked them up from other people that I spend time with. it would suck if people disregarded what i had to say due to the fact that i’m from the midwest and choose to use slang the way i do.
i talk the way I do for the same reason that I have a pretty goofy typing syntax— because I hang around people that get a kick out of it, and because it (hopefully??) has a disarming effect when contrasted with words that might otherwise be read as confrontational.
internet, let’s just stop policing each others about this kinda stuff (◡︵◡✿)
I never quite got why choosing one word or phrase over another when they meant the exact same thing and were widely understood as meaning the exact same thing changed whether or not you were intelligent
I grew up in texas so I was around plenty of it
I guess I can understand not liking it in formal writing or speech but you’re not going to be using you guys in really formal stuff anyway? I dunno man
