Asklemmy @lemmy.ml UltraGiGaGigantic @lemmy.ml 1d ago

I'm from the Y'all zone. Is it offensive to call trans people y'all?

If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.

Thanks y'all.

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I’m from Australia and I’ve started calling all groups of people yall because it’s gender neutral… very unaustralian term, and I love so much the irony of iconic southern terms being used to support trans activism
- I'm German and I use y'all all the time when speaking English. it's funny, most of my English is from the internet so it's the most crazy mix of english
- Why bother with importing y'all when we already have yous (or youse depending on how you want to spell it)? Or you could just treat 'you guys' as gender neutral, it effectively is these days with how people use it.
  
  Youse is too damn bogan for my taste
  
  absolutely this
  
  youse and torlet
  
  Fair enough, it does have associations there. Pretty sure I'd toss y'all in the same basket though if I heard anyone trying to make it a thing...
  
  As an Australian, why bother importing "y'all" when everyone is already "mate"?
  
  I was going to say something similar, but thinking everyone is "cunt".
  
  Yes, it's gender neutral.
  
  Too right, mate.
  
  Do we have yous/youse? According to my understanding that's technically not a real word yet, it's slang.
  
  2nd person singular used to be thou/thee back in the middle ages, but it all eventually melded into you.
  
  I feel like y'all is the newer American version of 2nd person plural, while yous/youse/yinz are the non-American English counterparts.
  
  I have always used you guys in a gender neutral manner historically, but people occasionally got offended by that. So I started using y'all several years ago and it's been going pretty good. Although I did initially spell it like ya'll until someone corrected me on reddit 😅

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