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Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 00:19:39 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲
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Not going to disagree with you here, especially because I also use "folks", but as someone who lives in the South of USA, I can confirm y'all is a common word used around here, no matter who you are.
https://www.wunc.org/news/2017-04-21/welcome-yall-signs-pop-up-around-the-triangle

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  Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 00:19:40 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
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  @andreasdotorg When non-white people tell me they'd prefer that I not use the term, I am free to decide to respect their wishes. I will not go into a fight over the origin, meaning and interpretations. I simply use a different word from now on and move on. I am not asking other people to do the same.
  
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  Ela (andreasdotorg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 00:19:41 JST Ela
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  @jwildeboer Doesn't seem to be correct, its usage is not limited to AAVE, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'all
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    Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or seventh if including W) vowel letter of the English alphabet. Its name in English is wye (pronounced ), plural wyes. In the English writing system, it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant. Name In Latin, Y was named I graeca ("Greek I"), since the classical Greek sound /y/, similar to modern German ü or French u, was not a native sound for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in Romance languages – i grego in Galician, i grega in Catalan, i grec in French and Romanian, and i greca in Italian – all meaning...
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  Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 00:19:42 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
  
  TIL that the term "Y'all" is considered AAVE (african american vernacular English) and its use by white people like me is frowned upon. Hence I will not use the term anymore and apologise for the times I did, not knowing the specifics.
  
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