“Now how many of y’all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don’t matter… of course unless they are trash for Biden & great for Trump!”

Who speaks like this?

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    My wife and I have been learning more German and it has ‘euch’ which is analogous to y’all. It took me a while to get that one worked out because it’s baked into the language instead of being a kind of slang hack for what English is missing.

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      10 months ago

      One thing I see a lot with language charts is they’ll translate it as “you” or if you’re lucky “you (plural)”, which can be really confusing. I actually had one teacher that just straight up translated it as “y’all”, which was both funny and enlightening.