kontextmaschine:

cop-disliker69:

kontextmaschine:

pileofknives:

memoirsofanescapist:

pileofknives:

I really hate the word “folks” tbh

genuinely, could you elaborate?

Oh it’s just that like “y'all” and “folks” feel like really fake and hollow, overly friendly, like trying to create a community by calling it a community before doing any of the social work necessary to build a community. After typing all that maybe I’m overthinking it.

I had been using “y'all” just cause I like having a second person plural but after recent years I’m switching to the Philadelphia “youse”

Isn’t Philadelphia that one tiny area that says “yinz” for no comprehensible reason? Isn’t ‘youse’ like an old Brooklyn thing?

Yinz is Pittsburgh, Youse is Philly.

The other characteristic Phillyism is “jawn”, a substitute noun (like “thingamajig” or “what’s-his-name”) that can be used for any thing, person, place, or event.

Trying to use “jawn” to mark particular identities is weird when the whole point is it’s a universal referent