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[-] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

because it's gender neutral. similar thing with folks(/folx, ugh) In some cases it's also used to be condescending/ironic, plus crackers just love appropriating turns of phrase from black people

[-] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

There is a bad wiff of gone off mayo of it now alright. The constant use of folk in lefty writing is annoying too.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

Better than 'You people'.💁‍♂️

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

we should appropriate from new jersey instead. i'm gonna start saying "youse"

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago
[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

This is "dawg" erasure

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

i have a very vague memory of a 90s cartoon doing a 50s pastiche where the bathroom signs said cats and something else. not sure if that was a joke or if that usage of cat has contextual gender

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago
[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago
[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago

fuck I totally thought that was a young Grandpa Simpson

[-] jack@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

My wife's got Pennsylvania family that says "yinz"

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 months ago

I have never once heard 'yinz' in casual conversation; is that actually real or is my leg getting yanked

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago
[-] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

It's real. Only the old folks say it though. The younger people say "you guys" mostly.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, older folk slang, that makes sense. I'm just here like "wh????? I've known hella people from philly and never once heard that, fuck y'all mean" but that lines up better.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago
[-] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago
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