"y'all" is good if it's available in your region, and when "y'all" seems insufficiently inclusive, there's "all y'all"
― Brad C., Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Just say "hey, assholes"!
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Wait I'm sorry, "arseholes" in some regions
There's also a certain word that begins with a c and that doesn't have quite the same meaning from one continent to the next.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
chaps?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
chap derives from chapman = trader (cf also cheapjack) and was coded male from the start
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
товарищи
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
друг
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Talking of expressions from strange, foreign climes - ay up, me ducks.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
I overuse dude but it's more of an emotive or exclamation. It's also probably really regional/generational.
― Yerac, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Like, all my friends (female) and I who grew up together call each other dude.
― Yerac, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
In any kind of work setting though, I would never call a group of people "guys" or "dudes."
― Yerac, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Same. It's definitely informal.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
I overuse “guys” a lot. I blame growing up in the Midwest in the 80s
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Feel like we should assign everybody numbers
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Only if we all end up at MIT
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
btw has anyone put “Morrissey fandom” on here yet
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
nobody would admit to it iirc
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Feel like we wouldn’t even be having this conversation if “folks” wasn’t a great example of the thread category (and what set off the discussion in the June US politics thread). It’s probably another detail of Obama’s exceptional political talent and charisma that he could use it in the 2010s and not immediately sound like a disingenuous huckster.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
And I've never heard 'dudes' used that way fwiw.
Same. Unless you actually came from the Southern US, saying "y'all" around here would be as goofy as greeting people by saying "top o' the morning". I would think you were ironically imitating or mocking a Southern accent.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Obama should have said “we tortured some guys”
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Y'all better keep your appointment with the Wicker Man, y'hear?
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Wicker Dude, surely?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
"What would you all like to order?"
There. Pretty sure that would work in any English-speaking setting.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
each
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Wicker Guy
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Wicker Cuck
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
I don't fully understand why plural "you" isn't good enough
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
this is america
"what would you consumers like to order?"
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
It is grammatically correct and concise; it just doesn't seem to be used that way that frequently in English. Idk why; I'm guessing because it's hard to distinguish from singular "you"? xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
it is good enough
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
this is america"what would you consumers like to order?"
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
english is spoken in i dunno how many variant dialects including mine throughout the world and id guess most of them have a version of personal pronouns for third person plural, i dunno how prevalent the same pronouns are throughout other languages but id think its safe to say they exist because there has popped up bytimes a use for them
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
donegal yousemayo yedublin yiz
im prob missing ten more just from the free state tbh
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
the industry term for a group of intellectually handicapped adults in an arts based program is "consumers"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
how dyou even start to give out to unruly kids without it, just to give one crucial example
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
tbh I will use "youse" and "y'all" in varying contexts but I don't think I police my social solecisms to the extent of some ilxors
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing because it's hard to distinguish from singular
That's true, but in French (among other languages) 'vous' can also be both singular and plural depending on the context, and it's never been a problem to my knowledge (although Quebec also has 'vous autres', which adds an extra hue). I think 'what would you guys like to order?' is ultimately about showing your customers that you don't stand on ceremony. There's a cultivated informality to it, which can come across as annoying in some contexts (not all), irrespective of the idiom's gender politics.
There is a solution, however: bringing back thou/thy/thee. Who's with me?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
id advocate sooner for the party thus addressed to not be looking so hard to police the social solecisms of others, or
you can't let pricks like this get to you tbh
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:26 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's a terrible instinct to not enjoy giving offence tho
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I thought about "vous" too and couldn't really put my finger on why it seems different. xps
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
I mean, if addressing a group in a professional setting, I don't think plural "you" would be hard to understand and I'm p sure it's what I'd use. "You guys" obv informal.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Thought these days the preferred word is “guests”
A tangent, but as a native English speaker it really infuriates me when a cashier finishes with a customer and immediately shouts "Following guest!" "Next guest!" is weird (because you wouldn't shout "Next!" at someone who was truly your "guest") but at least grammatically sound. But "following" without an article ("the following guest") is fucking horrific, and should never be used as a form of direct address.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'd definitely avoid 'you guys' unless I'm speaking to people I know.
xp
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Wtf, I don't think I've ever heard a cashier shout "following guest!". Is this really a thing in the NYC area??
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
lads will ye follow me please thanks have we everyone grand lads grand
it may be that the republican party isnt staying awake deciding these issues id say
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Christ, that's grim.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
I feel like there are a lot of chain stores that do the "following guest" thing. uniqlo? gap?
― Yerac, Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
..... next?
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link