The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke

And poetry isn't always literal.

Ya'll better watch out now y'hear? We don take kindly to that kind'a hate speech 'round these parts. Equal weight beans and beef, you skimp out either and yain't fixin' chili; you might'ina even be inclined to leave for everyone's sake.

Bless your heart 😒😒

Where in the world do you not put beans in chili? That's literally the point of chili. Is this an American thing I'm too European to understand?

The only actual fact here.

Fun fact:

"Thou" and "you" were the same word.

The "th" sound used to have its own character in written English called the thorn. When typefaces came along, it was excluded and sometimes replaced with a "y."

Also why "Ye" and "The" are the same.

Is it bad that I'm more bothered by "j'suppose" than the inclusion of "anyway"?

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.

Take it from the south; it will kill them inside.

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

If the plural of goose is geese, then the plural of moose is meese.

I approve of this message, are y'all with me?

You can't, that's Appalachian territory.

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.

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.

Don't forget y'all'd've as in " y'all'd've been fine with just y'all "

I was one of the downvotes. Clusivity, as described in your article does not apply to y'all. It's You All...it will never include the speaker.

It'd have to be something like w'all to apply.

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.

Getting pressed enough about a single downvote to make an edit is cringe.

Yeah. We mostly think of grammatical number as a simple choice of singular vs plural but that's not what we do in real life.

We generally have multiple labels that describe the concept of progressively expanding circles of what's included when we think of ourselves.

There's the very narrow sense of I/me/myself. We have various expansions around us/all'y'all. Jamaicans have the phrase "I and I" which focuses on the individual but explicitly calls out the connection with others.

Sounds right.
Presumably "y'all's" would be the second person superplural possessive.

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."

Florida is so redneck that they crossed a threshold into its own category. Florida Man.

If you use both hands, it'll take half as long.

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.

Texas is a Southwest state that identifies as Southern, making all of Texas inherently woke

By that logic Pennsylvania is Southern... And Washington State... And probably most of the country.

Sounds made up to me

It's an Abilene expression.

Darn tootin

North Carolina

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

Use metric units! Damn gun monkey!

Ah, compound contractions. Yeah that'll work. We've already got y'all've and y'all'd'a.

heard many you-uns growing up around the south.

Being female, yes.

But I do delight in the awkwardness when they're called on it and try to backtrack and blush all the way down to their male genitalia.

I banged 10 guys last night

I guarantee you that when most people think of a "guy", they aren't thinking of a woman. This is the same argument as "mailman is gender-neutral".

"so you fuck guys?"

I'm trying to be more conscious of it because i noticed my friends who are trans make a point to avoid "You guys". I'm resistant to y'all though, so instead of biting the bullet and adopting the local dialect, I'll say "you all" or "You two". Don't do what i do, y'all is kinda useful.

That's not right:

• you - singular
• y'all - plural
• all y'all - superplural

Y'all refers to multiple people, all y'all refers to multiple groups of people

I feel like y’all covers up to ~3 and “all y’all” (my favourite Americanism) is reserved for more than that?

I thought that's the plural genitive.

Well I think y'all is as much southern as it is Texan. But what does my northern Yankee ass know? Just stay away from all them hicks.

Right?? I kept asking friends and family if that's too rude, and they assured me that it wasn't, so I kept using it. I guess it might be on tone of voice, too.

Hahaha!!! That's a good one! I'm gonna start using that!

We have quite a few actually, "you lot", "yous", "cunts" etc.

I believe you're correct. I picked it up from some Aussie and Britt friends about a decade ago.

Are you a racist, sexist bigot? If not, this woke stuff shouldn't really bother you.

Is that a second language in addition to UKinglish?

Or a three letter agency.