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RE: your most favorite words - SleepingOrange - 04-25-2016
I use folks in place of guys since it's less gendered and you don't have to have the "wait guy guys or everyone guys" conversation every dang time but I accept that it makes me sound a little hayseed
RE: your most favorite words - Justice Watch - 04-25-2016
I suppose what so moves me about the word is that y'all works well as the subject to a predicate. Take the sentence, "Y'all need to get on the boat." Not many phrases can replace that; you have "you guys," "you folks", "all you," "you all," etc. And none of those really roll off the tongue in my opinion.
As Slorange said, this is a niche that exists in other languages, like to my knowledge, Spanish, French and German, but it's not there in English.
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 04-25-2016
Squad is probably my fave
RE: your most favorite words - OTTO - 04-26-2016
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RE: your most favorite words - Dragon Fogel - 04-26-2016
French has "vous", which is used as both plural "you" and a more formal version of "you". That's what I remember of it, anyways.
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 04-26-2016
Astral
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 05-17-2016
Insouciant:
NZ Herald Wrote:This, combined with the prospect and perception of space, beauty and a largely insouciant attitude, has blinded many tourists when travelling across our country.
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 05-17-2016
This is going up on the fridge next to "petulant" and "puerile"
RE: your most favorite words - Sadgi - 05-17-2016
ombudsman: it's fun to say
gemiddelde: dutch for "average", also fun to say
RE: your most favorite words - a52 - 05-17-2016
debacle
therefore
furthermore
thus
RE: your most favorite words - a52 - 06-04-2016
trundle
tabulate
blither
RE: your most favorite words - SeaWyrm - 06-04-2016
Crepuscular
Gubernatorial
RE: your most favorite words - Mirdini - 07-15-2016
Liverpudlian
RE: your most favorite words - a52 - 11-04-2016
vestments
vestibular
vestigial
vestige
RE: your most favorite words - goblin's - 11-04-2016
equinox
RE: your most favorite words - learning-timebuster - 11-10-2016
i see y'all's already been brought up, but i'm a fan of "y'all'd've"
RE: your most favorite words - OTTO - 11-10-2016
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RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 03-15-2017
solastalgia
RE: your most favorite words - BananaPanda - 03-15-2017
apoplectic
RE: your most favorite words - SC - 03-15-2017
chelgibie
RE: your most favorite words - Gatr - 03-15-2017
hurry
it's not a complicated word. but i like the way it sounds
hurry
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 05-08-2017
horf
RE: your most favorite words - Myeth - 05-08-2017
WIEW
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 06-22-2017
Anomie
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 06-22-2017
Callous