Words will kill us all

[majes]

I've seen the future; what ultimately tears us all apart isn't racism or sexism or classism. No, no, no. It ends up being word-choice-ism.

Anyhugh, you choose - between the two options, which would you use - guys or folks - in these statements?

Poll Folks or Guys?

Comments

[the_xtina]

Your ongoing campaign against the perfectly valid word "yall" has been noted.

[heinleinfan]

heheh, was just posting my comment on the utter lack of ya'll there.

[surrealestate]

Indeed. I use y'all all the time, and I am extremely not Southern.

[heinleinfan]

There's no option for "ya'll" there in your poll there.

Need moar ya'll.

Regionalism:

[avivasedai]

If you add "y'all" you need to add "yuns" for my part of Appalachia. }:-)

[jss1113]

But y'all is singular; all y'all is the plural.

[the_xtina]

I've heard it that "y'all" refers to a group, whereas "all y'all" refers to a larger group.

I've never personally heard it in the sense of referring to a single person, but I am not the internet, so I dunno.

[docorion]

I've hung around with enough Southerners to learn the extreme usefulness of the word "y'all". Especially when all y'all aren't listening to a word I say :-)