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Is there a more annoying word than "y'all?"

>> No.16495426

>>16495421
Y’all are pretty funny around here, huh?

>> No.16495429

>>16495421
Female.

>> No.16495437

>>16495429
your pattern recognition is whack, get more autism
>>16495426
and you get in the oven

>> No.16495443

>>16495421
OP

>> No.16495450

>>16495421
tryna/finna

>> No.16495455

>>16495421
it was fine before wokies started overusing it

>> No.16495466

>>16495455
it was never fine, the "good ol' boys" aka white niggers were always retarded garbage

>> No.16495475
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16495475

>sentence in reply ends with ", anon."

>> No.16495476

All y’all are a bunch of faggots. Everyone in Texas uses y’all. You can spot the difference in pronunciation whether it’s a SJW or a jezebel. I fuckin’ swear.

>> No.16495481 [DELETED] 

>>16495421
I was going to meme something but I got warned for posting off topic /lit/ memes. Sorry Bidenbro.

>> No.16495486

Problematic is bad. But y'all is worse.

>> No.16495488

>>16495476
Post vocaroo.

>> No.16495490

>>16495466
Shut the fuck up, you sissy queer

>> No.16495515
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16495515

>>16495476
Howdy

>> No.16495533
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16495533

>>16495490
fuck you fake cowboy, get in

>> No.16495576

>>16495421
>be me
>be from bumfuck nowhere in the south
>everyone says ‘y’all’
>go to big state college
>go to college bar with an acquaintance I made at orientation
>girl from out of state tries to talk to me
>”omg X-place is so funny, y’all say “y’all” which is so funny because it’s gender-neutral which is so cool, like in Boston we say you guys which is so toxic”
>i just nod
>she stares
>i stare
>”i’m gonna go to the bathroom”
>i leave the bar and I walk home
>haven’t been to a college bar since

>> No.16495581

>>16495576
Based

>> No.16495587

>>16495576
You fucked up, anon. College bars are just full of retards. Better to just drink in your room reading Russian absurdist poetry like I did all four years of college.

>> No.16495593

>>16495576
dangerously BASED

>> No.16495597

>>16495576
>is so funny because it’s gender-neutral which is so cool, like in Boston we say you guys which is so toxic”
did she unironically say this or are you making it up

>> No.16495616

>>16495597
not that anon, but I am from the South and by girlfriend attends Harvard Law and I have uniroincally had retarded Bostonians say this to me

>> No.16495617

>>16495576
wow you are so fucking cool i can just imagine your big ol balls swinging on the ground as you swagger out the door

>> No.16495619

>>16495421
yes, "folks"

>> No.16495629

>>16495619
folx*

>> No.16495638

>>16495617
as the based latinx poet 6ix9ine said
>let yo nuts hang

>> No.16495697

>>16495597
That anon here. Yes, this is a true story and that is damn near verbatim
>>16495617
Why did this trigger you, anon? I’m just autistic and had no clue how to respond. What was I supposed to say? Mimic her virtue signaling and say stop appropriating my southern culture?

>> No.16495850

>>16495421
ayo

>> No.16496360

>>16495421
"badass"

>> No.16496410

>>16495617
this but entirely without irony

>> No.16496454

>>16495421
y'all'd've'n't

>> No.16496783

Overuse of the term "folks", usually a painful and intellectually insulting attempt to create an artificial sense of "authenticity" for something that obviously is a modern construct.

>> No.16496834

>>16495421
Nothing wrong with it. In English there is no non-colloquium for a collective you.

>> No.16496842

>>16496783
It's from the German 'volk', and there's nothing wrong with it basically synonymous with people (which is from 'populi').

>> No.16496850

>>16496360
dude, that's badass

>> No.16496912

>>16495421
You are all not>y'all ain't>yaint

>> No.16496934

>>16496783
I haven’t noticed that one but that’s pretty much why y’all is annoying. Not even people who are in the habit of saying it because of where they’re from ever naturally used it while typing. It’s just so obviously affected.

>> No.16496971

>>16495421
"based"

>> No.16497061

>>16496971
I recognize that saying ‘based’ is cringe, but now it’s stuck in my vocabulary

>> No.16497143

>>16496842
mansplaining while missing the point is truly real

>> No.16497169

>>16497143
Based and hairyclampilled

>> No.16497229

>>16495421
she

>> No.16497281

Y'all isn't annoying. It is convenient and useful. It's either that or "You guys", which makes little sense to say when addressing a group of women (something I suspect OP doesn't do much)

>> No.16497676

>>16497281
"You guys" has always been understood as a neuter plural and nobody would blink an eye in using it to address women. Leftists are just autistic .

>> No.16497715

>yall
cringe
>you all
kino

>> No.16497788 [DELETED] 

>>16497281
If “they” can be singular than “guys”can be gender-neutral.

>> No.16497795

>>16497676
If “they” can be singular then “guys”can be gender-neutral.

>> No.16497801

This entire issue goes away the moment we adopt a legitimate second person plural pronoun.

>> No.16497891

>>16495466
Faggot

>> No.16498154

>>16497801
It's not even an issue.

>> No.16498165

gotcha

>> No.16498211

>>16495515

Ben?

>> No.16498254
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16498254

>>16495421
"why"
"why %some stupid statement%"?
widely used by paid shills on /pol, /his and everywhere else.

>> No.16498265

>>16495697
Don’t go along with it, mock her or change the subject or put your hand on her leg.. do what you want. do you regret your response?

>> No.16498298

These are the ones that annoy me the most. I actually had someone try to lecture me on not using the term "black people" and got angry when I ignored them.

>People of color
>Wow... just wow
>Baby momma

>> No.16499548

>>16495421
penny

>> No.16499554

>>16495421
Latinx

>> No.16499556

racist
>that movie is racist
>that restaurant is racist
>those IQ tests are racist
>those facts are racist

>> No.16499581

>>16495466
Based

>> No.16499598

>>16495421
If I hear it from a voice with an authentic southern or black accent, said as a natural habit rather than a meditated choice, I find it pretty endearing. When people clearly do it in a put-on way, it's nails on the chalkboard. Same with "folks".

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16499612

>>16495421
>BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASEDDDDDDD

>> No.16499679

White trash and niggers are tHe same thing
Prove me wrong

>> No.16499838

>>16497801
That's what You is. We just forgot about Thou

>> No.16499860

>>16495421
>ACKSHUALLY

I hate the word. I hate the people.

>> No.16499874

y'all folks really finna trynna be fascists out here?

>> No.16499884

>>16495421
she, her, feelings

>> No.16499895

>literally

>> No.16500080

Kek. The only people who use this word in 2020 are brainless boomers who think they are "cool and based just like the youngsters"

>> No.16500627

Nice. I'll put this on my short list of trigger words

>> No.16500632

>>16499874
Yes.

>> No.16500683
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16500683

>there is no second person plural except for y'all
>but it makes you sound like a South stater
I say y'all because my posh English accent makes it sound like I'm using it in an intelligent way somehow
enjoy not having an /fa/ accent, losers

>> No.16500723

>>16500683
>Africa.jpg
Isn't that an Easter Island piece?

>> No.16500728

>>16495437
cuck

>> No.16500798

>>16495421
Yeet

>> No.16500800

Folks.

>> No.16501471

>>16500683
>you all

>> No.16502078

>>16495421
"meh"

>> No.16502272

>>16495475
You shouldn't be so bitter, anon

>> No.16502521

>>16495421
Y'all yankoids are really triggered by contractions, ain't'cha?

>> No.16503843

>>16495421
Y'alls

>> No.16503905

>>16500683
Just say "you", why do you need to say "you all"

>> No.16504098

>>16499554
this one takes the cake because it's not only impossible to pluralize, but virtually impossible for Spanish speakers to even pronounce

>> No.16504116

>>16495450
I like finna because it's part of AAVE everywhere but its derived from "fixin' to" which you will never hear outside of the south. It's like a dialectic proof of the great migration

>> No.16504126

>>16495576
>it's you-guise
It's Halloween time, meme this etymology into them

>> No.16504129

>>16495576
This is good evidence against the power of language to shape thought lol.

>> No.16504133

>>16496912
youse faggots need'a watch it I'm walkin'ere

>> No.16504135

'Literally' drives me insane, because the people that use it use it a tonne

>> No.16504137

>>16496971
>>16497061
How many people on /lit/ know it started with Lil B?

>> No.16504138

Woo

>> No.16504139

I'm a Texan.
I use yall.

Fuck off.

>> No.16504142

>>16498298
People of color includes other minority groups

>> No.16504153

>>16500800
>>16499598
>>16496783
Is the gripe here that "folk" is already plural? I say "folk" a fair bit but I'm in the florida panhandle. I dont ever really put an S on it

>> No.16504183

>>16495576
>like in Boston we say you guys which is so toxic
Why do burgers need an explicit plural form? Is it because they lack subtlety?

>> No.16504260

>>16504142
Okay?

>> No.16504333

>>16504260
I was just pointing out it functions differently than "black people"

>> No.16504444

>>16495421
>youse

>> No.16504506

>>16504333
Why is it something that needed to be pointed out?

>> No.16504634

>>16495421
>yinz

>> No.16505832

>>16495466
This

>> No.16505841

>>16495466
This, shit always pissed me off

>> No.16506004

>>16499554
Fuck this retarded word, not only do none of us call each other this because its unnecessary and silly but its such a bad fucking name, unironically just call me a spic or a wetback at that point because latinx is an insult

>> No.16506008

>>16495576
this just got posted to r/4chan. Anon you got 5000 upboats and 300 comments.