• Brennen@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused. No punctuation, no spell check, barely any literacy. What is “yall yallself yall”? Sounds very arabic, but might just be an undereducated US american?

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      It would benefit from a period, and I can’t tell if they’re trying to be sarcastic, but the use of y’all is fine. Y’all is an American-English word most similar to the Spanish vosotros. Y’all’s-selves is a more specific dialect mostly found in the US south east, but it is a word too. Y’all fills a hole in the language and I don’t get why people hate it so much. Y’all’s-selves really only serves the purpose of adding an emphasis on the collective nature of yourselves.

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        1 year ago

        Just FYI, y’all is pretty much confined to the US South. You almost never hear it in other regions.

        That’s also why there’s so much hate: because “y’all” is so strongly associated with the South, and the South has a bit of a reputation in the rest of the country. Some of which is deserved and a lot of which isn’t, but it is what it is.

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      1 year ago

      I think what the commentor is attempting to do is point out and make fun of is that Americans only care for right now and within a few election cycles America will stop providing financial support to the Ukraine.

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        Which isn’t true, polls show a supermajority of Americans support arming Ukraine. Even the Republicans are only split about 50-50, which is absolutely shocking given how hard the right wing propaganda machine’s been working to try to convince them to abandon Ukraine over the past year and a half.