People Constantly Saying "Y'all" on Social Media

OP, Y'all are worried too much about what other people do.

Y’all is a very inclusive word. That makes it great not redneck.

Blanche Devereaux begs to differ!

Oh, Millicent, just HEARING this gives ME the vapors too!

I've been using, "y'all" since middle school.

Y’all too uptight OP.

The fact people use various plural second person forms of address indicates to me that we need it for conversation, and English should never have cut back to just "you" for both singular and plural. I quite like "y'all" and even as an Australian find myself using it occasionally. In my opinion it certainly sounds better than the version many people use here, which is "youse".

I did think I read somewhere once though that "y'all" is meant to be singular and the plural is actually "all y'all", but not sure if that's true or not.

A second personal plural has always been ardently needed in the English language.

Don't y'all think that "do not you all" sounds cumbersome?

It's a little weird how this is now trendy among the SJW sort of crowd in regions where people don't traditionally say "y'all." Is it because "you guys" is deemed sexist and not inclusive?That's my best guess. (I know of a trans person who whines about "you guys" being triggering.)

Or is it because they want to sound black or something? But that would be cultural appropriation! They can't be trying to sound southern, because they're so often people who dismiss the south and "rednecks" collectively (like OP does). But then again, some of them DO seem to aim at sounding "folksy" sometimes, trying to take this faux down-to-earth tone despite actually being condescending self-righteous upper middle class student types most of the time. So I'm not ruling that out.

Y'all be chill, bitches.

I blame Paula Deen

[quote]Don't y'all think that "do not you all" sounds cumbersome?

Watchu mean by that?

Grew up in the South. We'd always laugh at our Yankee cousins who'd say "you guys" but it sounded like "you gice".

Why do black guys always say AKS instead of Ask? I hear that a lot, why just that one word?

I hate it. Sounds ridiculous.

I’m with you 100%, OP. “Y’all” implies an air of cool indifference: I’m chill, you’re shrill. It’s a scold, the literary equivalent of someone wagging their stinky finger in your face.

It always makes me think of Cletus and Brandine from the Simpsons.

That reminds me of that story about a Southern woman who goes to this la-dee-da cocktail party in New York City. She turns to a Northern woman and says, "Where y'all from?" The Northern woman looks at her and she says, "We're from where we don't end our sentences with a preposition." So the Southern woman looks at her and says, "Oh...well then, where y'all from.......BITCH!"

OP, you sound effete

Y’all is a national term today. Y’all sound stuck in 1949.

I’m from Texas and we all say “y’all” multiple times a day. It’s accepted everywhere from the barn to the boardroom. In some ways, it’s even a term of endearment.

It’s said a lot here in DC

Y'All is just as bad as a Nor'easter.

It’s one thing if you’re from the south, but no matter where you’re from, in writing it looks moronic.

Actually the current trend of the use of "y'all" in social media started as a black thing and was picked up by white kids. Another example is "imma" in place of "I'm going to".

It's New Orleans, not New Or-linz. I dont care if you live there or not, it's still slang.

"But then again, some of them DO seem to aim at sounding 'folksy' sometimes"

Excuse me, but it's "folxy." You need to do better.

Well, R21 - bless your heart.

it’s been taken over by SJW, along with “folks” except now THAT has been changed to folx.

it is meant to elevate POC speech patterns, be inclusive, and make white SJWs feel like they’re woken.

I live in the south, BUT I was born in California. I feel like a fraud saying y’all. I do write it though - a quick text to family or friends - “Are y’all close?” That feels perfectly fine. I still say you guys.

People must be woke. We're not diverse enough! We need more disabled morbidly obese trans lesbians of color!

In New York, the urban blacks and latinos pronounce y'all as "yah" or "yawh." Some of the New York whites might say it that way, too, but they usually say "yous or youz."

R32, that's because those NY (and Philly) black people have tons of family down South, so tend to have cross-pollination of language forms.

When we were youngsters, the day after school let out for summer, my NY and Philly cousins would get dropped off at my grandma's farm in South Carolina, and stay there until their parents came to fetch them the week before school began again in September.

My Southern parents would never even consider dumping us off like that!

[Quote]When we were youngsters, the day after school let out for summer, my NY and Philly cousins would get dropped off at my grandma's farm in South Carolina, and stay there until their parents came to fetch them the week before school began again in September.

R33 Same here with many of my black cousins. My Puerto Rican cousins were flown off to Puerto Rico for the summer. I was kept in New York because my parents, rather controversially, didn't want me having those types of ties to either area. They were New Yorkers through and through, and expected me to become the same way.

I use youse.

Doesn't yet annoy me quite as much as "Just sayin'."

^^^ Already annoys me infinitely MORE THAN "Just sayin.'"

I like my working class white Long Island (formerly Brooklyn) accent, especially when encountering a Woker SJW, for some reason those organic daisies hate authentic accents like mine.