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Come on. You can’t honestly tell me that “folks” or “y’all” are signs of language policing. I think many Southerners would vehemently disagree with you.
by jwkpiano1 2y ago
Come on. You can’t honestly tell me that “folks” or “y’all” are signs of language policing. I think many Southerners would vehemently disagree with you.
- fidotron 2y agoIf they're not from an actual southerner they absolutely are. Just look at how their usage is promoted in this thread to defeat supposed evils elsewhere in the language.
- Apocryphon 2y agoPerhaps the solution then should be to replace “y’all” with the northern regional equivalents of “youse” or even “yinz.” Would you feel happier about that?
- fidotron 2y agoThe other revealing thing is the way you people sound like you're in therapy sessions, always trying to frame things with emotive questions. There's actually nothing wrong with the existing generally used words.
- Apocryphon 2y agoWhat do you mean by “you people?” Are these people in the room with you right now?
- fidotron 2y agoYou're so endearing, it's really going to win me over to your side of the argument.
- Apocryphon 2y agoWhat argument do you presume I’m advancing? Perhaps your tendency to see everything as a competition is why you view each conversation as a psychoanalysis evaluation.
- fidotron 2y ago> What argument do you presume I’m advancing? I'd be legitimately surprised if you know at this point.
- Apocryphon 2y agoThat’s my secret, Captain. I never have any arguments.
- jwkpiano1 2y agoIt’s funny how you think you’re not doing the exact same thing you’re accusing others of doing: policing language.
- fidotron 2y agoI don't police, I merely judge based on usage.
- jwkpiano1 2y agoI’m sorry you’re offended by people trying to be nice to others by avoiding language they don’t appreciate. I promise nobody is gonna force you to do the same.
- fidotron 2y agoI didn’t say I was offended, because I am not. What I said is it is a sign of language policing, and that means a sign of the sort of people that like to deliberately misinterpret things so they get to be offended and virtue signal about the response. Normal people, unlike myself, simply shut up as a defence mechanism.
- fenomas 2y agoYou've walked into a pretty innocuous conversation here, and tried to start a culture-war argument even though nobody present has actually taken the position you want to argue against. Please consider not doing that in the future.
- fidotron 2y agoI think you missed that that is what the posted article did.