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What amuses me the most is that libs would get mad if they saw this thread.
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Y'all don't understand how things work. Don't be naïve. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Etc etc fucking etc
I'm not one for inspecting people's language choices and I'm not even from the US, so I don't have a dog in this race... but goddamn, libs using y'all annoys me to no end
Edit: I should have been clearer here. There's lots of varieties of US English which use y'all and that's obviously natural, it's just that I've seen lots of wannabe DC staffer coastal lib types using it in a way that feels kinda condescending and annoying
It's a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE
Having grown up with it I honestly think it's weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun.
Yeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it
I get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about "folks". Maybe we just need to start saying "Comrade" publicly instead.
You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn's party leadership.
Here's a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4
I feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay
I like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn't get generalized.
There's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.
Agreed
Embrace your inner Philadelphian
Embrace "yous"
Synthesis: Yous'll
Paul "Yous'll" Muad'Dib Atreides
Some cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the "dialects" of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer's LTI.