The nice thing about languages is that they evolve, change, reconfigure, and adapt. They are not sacred things, but tools we use and manipulate. While we may have something similar, the utility needs of our words change over time and over regions. In certain parts of the United States and elsewhere ‘y’all’ has filed in the linguistic gap.
yeah, I know the utility of the word but it just doesn’t sound nice, I try to restructure my sentences to avoid it whenever possible. just the tone of “yall” has the “trying to seem cool” vibe and it feels like an overfriendly word to use in most scenarios.
the phrase “yall” melting my brain cells painfully, 1 cell at a time:
Y’all is great and as a foreign speaker it’s really nice
y’all is nice but yall isn’t
*ain’t
It’s a second person plural pronoun. Other languages have them. For instance, Spanish has vosotros/ustedes and German has ihr.
English already has a plural pronoun: “you”. It’s the singular that we’ve lost: “thou”.
The nice thing about languages is that they evolve, change, reconfigure, and adapt. They are not sacred things, but tools we use and manipulate. While we may have something similar, the utility needs of our words change over time and over regions. In certain parts of the United States and elsewhere ‘y’all’ has filed in the linguistic gap.
yeah, I know the utility of the word but it just doesn’t sound nice, I try to restructure my sentences to avoid it whenever possible. just the tone of “yall” has the “trying to seem cool” vibe and it feels like an overfriendly word to use in most scenarios.
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yeah obviously
Y’all have fun with that, y’hear?
Yet the misuse of a colon as a form of sentence punctuation doesn’t hurt more? Talk about arbitrary…
wdym?