What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    I’ve always wondered why y’uys didn’t become a thing where people say you guys. I grew up with y’all. It’s efficient and inclusive which is added bonus and ironic coming from the south

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
      27·
      5 months ago

      I grew up around Seattle and also with y’all.

      Of course, a lot of people say ‘you guys’ and either don’t care or have decided that it’s gender non deterministic because ya’ll is cringe and racist-coded.

      Never even heard of y’uys.

      Would that be pronounced Yaiz?

      ???

      Anyway, half of those questions I could have answered with half of the options given, as they’re all common enough that most people either know what they mean or use them… and then the other half of the questions were basically just one answer.

      EDIT: If anyone cares, easiest way in the world to tell someone is a California transplant is that they say ‘the 5’, not ‘I-5’. That is, for the ones who aren’t always telling you they are from California.

      EDIT 2: Is there some kind of map of where Americans do and do not raise the pitch of the last word or syllable in a sentence? You know, that makes it sound like a statement is actually a question?

      Its that weird tonal pattern that I have always found indicates a person is self centered and sheltered. I’ve known it as ‘Valley Girl Accent’ since I was a kid, and it only seems to be spreading.

      Apparently its called ‘High Rising Tone’?

  • southsamurai
    5·
    5 months ago

    I dunno about yins, but you’ns is crazy if’n y’all don’t use alla’yous’n’em