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

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tissek@ttrpg.network⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • halvar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shit, if ungendered pronouns make it woke, then I should ditch my native language.

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    • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      English is the wokest language. In Spanish, all nouns are gendered. That means when Trump wanted to build a wall, he was actually being woke AF.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find it’s also singular and plural.

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  • sorchist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OK then when you get out of the shower you go

    oh, duh, only third person singular pronouns are ever gendered in English. why would I ever think a second person pronoun would be gendered?

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  • luckyhunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “All Y’alls” is based though.

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    • APassenger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Y’all is plural you (at this point).

      All y’all is an enhancement and clarification meaning, “every one addressed.”

      It is, also, based (and fun).

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      • totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Please explain the last one I do not grok

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  • Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Share this to scare a conservative

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a rural west coaster, Ya’a’ (pronounced yuh-ah) will do.

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    • Roundcat@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So that’s where we get TV “southern” comes from…

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  • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Y’all means All

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    • MajorJimmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can you tell me which gender “all” falls under?

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      • pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Must be pan

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  • Haus@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As is Pennsyltucky’s “Y’inz.”

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about you’uns?

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    • chronically_crazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or Yous

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    • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Despite only having lived there for a couple of years, I’m fond of the Pittsburghese yinz.

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I avoid saying y’all so people won’t assume I’m a right wing southerner. If we could just push this it’d be hilarious and amazing.

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    • Bobert@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t be afraid to show the world that not all southerners are right wing. I am prideful of my southern heritage while at the same time embracing others and celebrating theirs. I’ll never be ashamed of my drawl/accent and if other people choose to look down on me, well, that sounds like their loss.

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m a Southern transplant living in New England for the last couple decades and I’ve never thought of “y’all” as being indicative of right-wingedness. I use it all the time and it doesn’t feel like anyone thinks anything of it.

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    • bedo6776@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I avoid it because my schools would not allow it’s use because “it’s slang and not a word.” Same with “ain’t.”

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  • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And now we wait for the inevitable “th’all”, just to distinguish from the ever more popular singular they

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    • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Coming to a theatre near you.

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  • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.

      So works (or phrases) like:

      • Civil rights Act of 1964
      • Equal Pay Act of 1963
      • Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
      • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
      • Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)
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      • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Chill out dude. Im not going to argue with you Y’all on the internets.

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    • dmonzel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks like you were, indeed, triggered by that.

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Woke” is just another word to use to describe something that isn’t conservative enough. There is nothing temporal about it these days.

      If you think a word or action is bad, it’s “woke”. The word to describe someone who is not conservative enough is “librul”.

      The actual definitions or proper context does not matter to people who just parrot what they hear.

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    • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      guys finally after searching for decades we found the english academy for prescriptivism! Turns out it was a random Lemmy user all this time! Who knew!

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How long do you think the word woke, with any of the definitions (specifically the original), has been in use?

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      • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I do not know. I first heard the term back around 2019 I believe and I always used an “urban dictonary” dedinition

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Y’all, posers.

    You want to be inclusive like we did down in Tennessee, right all’y’all?

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  • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had an ex that made fun of me non stop for saying “you all”

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  • Skoobie@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.

    I started saying y’all because it’s ungendered!

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  • books@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always used y’all when greeting strangers because of this very reason.

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  • mayo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think conservatism is about being rational it’s about maintaining tradition or maybe morality, however it was defined by the previous generation.

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    • creamed_eels@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Conservatism is about absolute control by any means necessary

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    • Riyosha_Namae@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Conservatism is about making it illegal for the rest of the world to exist in a manner other than the one that you personally want it to.

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      • mayo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I feel like you don’t actually know that and it’s just your opinion.

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  • RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Adori@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Being against wokeness is another word for being racist basically.

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  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about you’ins?

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