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How would you feel about a suggestion to use y’all instead of you guys? folx instead of folks?

• joshuamorton 4y ago
  A quick search of my emails suggests that while I commonly use "everyone" and "y'all", I haven't used "you guys" in a business communication in...years I don't think "folx" is going to be one of the recommendations, it isn't synonymous with folks anyway, so the replacement would be rarely make sense unless you were explicitly talking about particular queer or marginalized communities.
• jhugo 4y ago
  In several English-speaking countries "guys" is not at all gendered (used universally by people of any gender to refer to groups of people of any gender), while "y'all" and "folks" are basically just not in the language at all and would just get you confused looks. I have no idea what "folx" means as this is the first time I've ever seen it.
• DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
  "You guys" is just the most common form of the 2nd-person plural in American English. "Y'all" is strongly dialectal, and it sounds forced when someone who doesn't actually speak the dialect says it.
  • throwaway0a5e 4y ago
    People who speak with the thickest appalachin and thickest black english dialects (two pick two ends of the spectrum) can barely communicate with each other and "y'all" sounds perfectly natural from either of them. It's a class thing. Which is why it sounds forced when a CEO who doesn't have a preexisting american accent of some sort says it.
• overboard2 4y ago
  Extremely negatively
• enw 4y ago
  I feel it's retarded.
• PolygonSheep 4y ago
  > Y'all As a Texan it sounds jarring and wrong when said by a non-Southerner. A bit like a lily white person suddenly dropping into AAVE. It's just cringe-inducing and I would like people who do it as an affectation (rather than something they grew up saying) to not do it.