Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Buttons840 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:29PM (#26350646)

Try the inferior version of y'all, "you all".

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by hnick on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:40PM (#26351346)

Or the inferior(?) version of "you all", "youse".

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Buttons840 on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:24PM (#26362984)

Did you just call me a "se"? (Since we're on the subject of pronouns.)

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by hnick on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:23PM (#26363577)

It's OK, some of my friends are SEs!

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Shared404 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:37PM (#26350740)

Alternately, "you lot".

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by respondo2134 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:51PM (#26350877)

that seems negative like "you people", as in a sterotyped grouping of a bunch of individuals, vs. just a group of people

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Shared404 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:55PM (#26350917)

There's a bit of overlap.

Y'all is usually positive, but can be negative "What on earth did y'all do now?!?", and "you lot" leans negative, but can be used positively "Alright you lot, lets get it done".

Tone of voice is extremely important in both examples.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by aksss on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:24AM (#26353852)

> “What on earth did y'all do now?!?"

Y’all isn’t what makes that negative. It would be just as negative if you swapped in any other pronoun (you, he, she, I, it, etc).

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