Post #2310671
2018-10-17 17:54 UTC
Replies (37)
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@Bronco@guillotines.masto.host 2018-10-17 17:58
@Thomas@laserdisc.party "any 'count" means "of a reasonable level of quality"
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-17 20:45
@rotor@mastodon.social @Thomas@laserdisc.party where i'm from, we don't use it that way. i reckon just means 'ok whatever' or 'im not sure but i reckon it might be like that'
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@nindokag@refactorcamp.org 2018-10-17 18:10
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Agreed! I'm a connecticut yankee but I consciously adopted "Y'all" into my vocabulary when I noticed how much it improves the clarity of communication. People who don't like it are just being snobs.
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@auntiekiki@wandering.shop 2018-10-17 18:29
@Thomas@laserdisc.party And "all y'all" is the perfect emphatic plural.
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@Quixote171@radical.town 2018-10-17 18:48
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Reckon y'all ain't been over yonder, but I'm pert near fixin to head thataway myself.
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@Ethancdavenport@retro.social 2018-10-17 19:14
@Thomas@laserdisc.party ♥️
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@_ampersand@guillotines.masto.host 2018-10-17 19:57
@Thomas@laserdisc.party one of my favorite bad woke takes was "using 'y'all' if you aren't from the South is cultural appropriation and you're no ally of the oppressed if you do it."
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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2018-10-17 20:38
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Aww, what's wrong with "youse"?
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-17 20:42
@Thomas@laserdisc.party also, your mamanem are fine.
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-17 20:46
@Thomas@laserdisc.party djeet dinner yet? no yont to?
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-17 20:50
@Thomas@laserdisc.party 'down there' means pretty much anywhere.
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-17 20:53
@Thomas@laserdisc.party mississippi only has 3 syllables and louisiana has either 4 or 5, depending on where you're from.
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@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology 2018-10-17 23:21
@Thomas@laserdisc.party concur.
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@tA@ilovela.in 2018-10-18 00:25
@Thomas@laserdisc.party For your consideration: "ny'all"
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@_cr0_tab@freeradical.zone 2018-10-18 02:20
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Oh captain, my captain. I will die defending this hill.
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@glintacp@anticapitalist.party 2018-10-18 03:56
@Thomas@laserdisc.party aholt, like 'get aholt of that wouldja?'
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@shrugs@knzk.me 2018-10-18 06:46
@Thomas@laserdisc.party In Scotland we have "youse" as a plural and it makes so much sense
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@artisticfennec@tabletop.social 2018-10-18 15:17
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Y'all is perfect and I love it so much because I can use it in place of you guys as a gender neutral form of address.
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@thraeryn@thraeryn.net 2018-10-19 06:23
@Thomas@laserdisc.party And "friend" comes highly recommended as a gender-neutral pronoun.
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@balrogboogie@ceilidh.space 2018-10-19 09:09
@Thomas@laserdisc.party "y'hear?" is the best way to say "do you understand?"
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@Zach@pleroma.zachcampau.com 2019-01-29 17:00
@Thomas@laserdisc.party @Greg@social.coop These words have made their way into my lexicon over the past few years. I don't know why. I'm from Michigan, I don't know if it's a MI/midwest thing, or what. Except "ain't". I don't really use that one.
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@Ayior@mastodon.art 2019-01-29 17:53
@Thomas@laserdisc.party English is not my main language so I have no cultural context for any of the words I use. You'll possibly see me combining southern dialect, black slang and fancy elite words within one sentence cause I just want to get my point across and have no idea about the cultural context.
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@lindentreeisle@fandom.ink 2019-08-21 12:44
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Them- Y'all isn't real English, it's just lazy and ignorant. Me- Yeah, I used to think that: when I was 15. Them- ... Me- Y'all motherfuckers need to grow up and get over yourselves.
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@Snapai@dragon.style 2019-11-22 02:25
@Thomas@laserdisc.party In high school I loved annoying my French teacher by translating "vous" as "y'all" but it works in both senses - as 2nd person both plural and a more formal singular!
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@gemlog@mastodonten.de 2019-11-22 02:43
@Thomas@laserdisc.party I know someone who says All y'all even.
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@PsyChuan@snouts.online 2020-09-25 15:40
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Y'all ain't reckon there's anything over yonder?
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@hoppet@raru.re 2020-09-25 17:32
@Thomas@laserdisc.party this is a good post i tell you what
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@starwall@wizzzard.online 2021-05-20 18:41
@Thomas@laserdisc.party this is all correct
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@kennon@tabletop.vip 2022-06-01 17:09
@Thomas@laserdisc.party No ever mentions 'you'ns' these days.... 😓
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@kennon@tabletop.vip 2022-06-01 17:10
@Thomas@laserdisc.party Though also, totally agree on 'reckon.' It's fantastic.
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@scully@social.chinwag.org 2022-09-14 17:18
@Thomas@laserdisc.party "spell" is a wonderful period of time spent with someone you like.
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@scully@social.chinwag.org 2022-11-08 16:05
@Thomas@laserdisc.party and “spell” is a perfectly cromulent word for a length of time. * I still prefer yinz to y’all.
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@sidd_harth0_5h4h@tenforward.social 2024-05-09 02:06
@Thomas@laserdisc.party saying howdy only to maeb
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@himbovoorhees@elekk.xyz 2025-12-08 18:03
@Thomas@laserdisc.party "down the way" "fixin to" also great indicators of distance and time
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@thevhswizard@retro.pizza 2025-12-12 14:29
@Thomas@laserdisc.party One of the great awakenings that I had becoming an adult was realizing exactly how many "rules" to the English language were just... made up, and usually to punish and further segregate a marginalized people. They're not teaching children in the US actual "rules" so much as they are attempting to enforce a "style guide", which... you don't have to follow, it's completely arbitraty. End your sentences with a dangling participle if you want, I'm not your supervisor. Noun the fuck out of your verbs. Steal words form other languages with reckless abandon. The thing that's really important is the meaning you're trying to convey, the medium is really arbitraty
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@Bishopjoey@writing.exchange 2025-12-12 15:10
@Thomas@laserdisc.party I reckon, y'all, that it ain't over yonder at all. Now I just need the *opposite* of yonder.
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@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca 2026-01-28 23:47
@Thomas@laserdisc.party I’m sorry, my understanding is that “y’all” is in fact singular, and the plural is “all y’all”