"Y'all" and "folks"

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

English doesn't have a plural "you" like other languages; German has sie, Ukrainian has ви and from what I remember about Portuguese they have one too but I forgot it. This is one of the reasons why Kaiser Willy 2 said "you English are like mad bulls; you see red everywhere." Coincidentally Willy 2 uses "you" as the plural when referring to the collective English which is grammatically correct. You can adress a collective as "you"

 

[Meat Target]

English doesn't have a plural "you" like other languages; German has sie, Ukrainian has ви and from what I remember about Portuguese they have one too but I forgot it. This is one of the reasons why Kaiser Willy 2 said "you English are like mad bulls; you see red everywhere." Coincidentally Willy 2 uses "you" as the plural when referring to the collective English which is grammatically correct. You can adress a collective as "you"

And Spanish has "ustedes" or "vosotros".

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

They're trying to take them back from racist whites.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Thankfully I can determine if someones retarded and insufferable by using that word and not being a Southerner or Texan as an excuse.

 

[RatRoyalty]

I looked this up within the last year and someone who studies language determined that it was caused by the popularity of Vine and Black Twitter among younger millenials/zoomers. All things considered, at least its not as cringey as the things white kids picked up from rappers on MTV in the 90's.

 

[Cold Root Beer]

I believe it's because they started pushing the use of the collective "guys" (like "hey guys, listen up" or "how's it going guys?") as sexist language, but they needed something to take it's place because of the ubiquity of that form of address in language. And they probably didn't want to use "you people" since it might sound vaguely like a racist address.

Couple that with how much wokescolding they do, which requires personally addressing a collective group that excludes yourself (which would usually be handled by addresses like "you guys") makes it really stick out and get overused by the group.

 

[UselessIdiot]

English doesn't have a plural "you" like other languages; German has sie, Ukrainian has ви and from what I remember about Portuguese they have one too but I forgot it. This is one of the reasons why Kaiser Willy 2 said "you English are like mad bulls; you see red everywhere." Coincidentally Willy 2 uses "you" as the plural when referring to the collective English which is grammatically correct. You can adress a collective as "you"

French has vous too.

I just say "you guys", since I'm from the Western US and I don't care if feminists/leftists get triggered by it.

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

They just try to sound black while failing to understand what makes the vernacular.
Its like trying to imitate an accent just by exaggerating sounds.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Yankees use it because black people use it because southerners use it.

>pulls up in a Prius

Blacks are the only reason the south has actual culture and cuisine.

 

[RollerGator]

"Folks" is perfectly fine. "Y'all" is for niggers and white trash.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

English doesn't have a plural "you" like other languages; German has sie, Ukrainian has ви and from what I remember about Portuguese they have one too but I forgot it. This is one of the reasons why Kaiser Willy 2 said "you English are like mad bulls; you see red everywhere." Coincidentally Willy 2 uses "you" as the plural when referring to the collective English which is grammatically correct. You can adress a collective as "you"

English did have a plural you. It's you. English lost the singular thou/thee/thy/thine, and the plural ye over time and so you/your/yours has become the only second person pronoun left.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

English did have a plural you. It's you. English lost the singular thou/thee/thy/thine, and the plural ye over time and so you/your/yours has become the only second person pronoun left.

There are some things which I wonder how it could've possibly happened. Like this for example, those singular words (thou, thing etc.) are super cool and yet our ancestors got rid of them. Super uncool of them to do btw

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

I remember seeing a person on tumblr explaining they did it to spite "White Southern Christian bigots".

They're fine with doing that, yet get mad at everyone else but black people using AAVE.

 

[Bogliacci]

A big part is Obama used both terms to try to sound folksy and blacker than he was even though he never set foot anywhere they'd naturally say the terms, white or black, until he ran for president. Obama is still the chief nigger for most libtards and blacks, so monkey see monkey do.

 

[Ahriman]

Makes them seem more working class than they really are, I suppose.

Which points out the contradiction on their doctrine, feigning indignation for the little guy and pretending to sound like one, but they're anything but.

 

[Chongqing]

A big part is Obama used both terms to try to sound folksy and blacker than he was even though he never set foot anywhere they'd naturally say the terms, white or black, until he ran for president. Obama is still the chief nigger for most libtards and blacks, so monkey see monkey do.

I came here to say this. Obama made this trendy.

 

[Kenya Jones]

As someone who has to have a lot of contect with white trannies the people here saying its about pronouns are goddamn right. I've seen so many people from Portland and Seattle say it because it's 100% a substitute for "you guys". That said, not only the south uses "yall" and "folks", you'll find that stuff all over the country that had that way of speaking before the internet.

 

[Spedestrian]

It's not a "people on Twitter" thing, it's a general woketard SJW snowflake thing. They've culturally appropriated "y'all" because saying "you guys" triggers trannies, which is pretty funny considering actual women never seemed to have a problem with it:

Many, however, find it uncomfortable to say you guys when referring to non-binary, intersex or trans people, since their gender identities are constantly being scrutinized and rejected — in other words, many of them are often told they really are guys.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-is-everyone-suddenly-saying-yall

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Saying ‘Y’All’?

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As for "folks" it's apparently because "people" implies some level of unified identity or experience (e.g. "the American people"). Since everyone needs to be acknowledged for their unique position in the Intersectional Oppression Olympics the term "folks" is now preferred:

They would be accused, perhaps, of glossing over key issues of “positionality” and “allyship” by referring not to “folks,” as most contemporary activists would, but to “the people,” as if it were unitary and shared a common set of experiences.

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Personally "y'all" is one of my favorite words and I'm pissed that I can't use it without coming off like a tranny apologist now. Cutting off your cock is one thing, but ruining my vernacular? Now that's disgusting.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

I noticed back during the 2000s on the now-SJW hive rpg.net that anyone starting off with "y'all" was inevitably a smug condescending asshole starting off a lecture about some absolute bullshit. A proto-SJW, in other words. It definitely predates Obama.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

There are some things which I wonder how it could've possibly happened. Like this for example, those singular words (thou, thing etc.) are super cool and yet our ancestors got rid of them. Super uncool of them to do btw

I looked into it a little bit and the common story as to why it fell out of favor is interesting. Thee/thou was already falling out of favor by the 17th century. The last nail in the coffin came when you became "formal", really reserved for those of higher standing like in "your Majesty", and Thou became "informal", meaning to refer to those of lower status. Rather than risk insulting someone by calling them "thou", everyone started to call each other "you". Except for the Quakers founder George Fox, who believed so much in being perfectly grammatically correct that he wrote a 200 page tome about the usage of thee and thou over you. His point being that thou ought to use "thou" in singular instances, and "you" in plural instances, and in fact referring to each other in the singular instance as "you" was prideful, sinful behavior. He had a lot of trouble from outsiders who would get violent over being referred to as "thou".

TL;DR Elitist Britbongs ruin everything trying to be overly polite, once again.