Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:45PM
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"You guys" is just the most common form of the 2nd-person plural in American English. "Y'all" is strongly dialectal, and it sounds forced when someone who doesn't actually speak the dialect says it.
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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:50PM
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People who speak with the thickest appalachin and thickest black english dialects (two pick two ends of the spectrum) can barely communicate with each other and "y'all" sounds perfectly natural from either of them.
It's a class thing. Which is why it sounds forced when a CEO who doesn't have a preexisting american accent of some sort says it.