Yous

[Saint Frankenstein]

Ain't youse heard tell about that thar newfangled language? Those fancy-dancy edumacated types come up with these new words all the time. But I done decided to keep using the old words, like my grandpappy used to use.

Nah, that person would say y'all. "Yous" or "Youse" sounds like a stereotypical Brooklyn accent.

 

[We Never Know]

Isn’t “southern Revoltistan” the continental US?

I think its his backyard

 

[Revoltingest]

Isn’t “southern Revoltistan” the continental US?

Just my front yard.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

This seems like a nod to Aussie Bogan, if I'm telling the truth.

@SalixIncendium was asking about using this in context. In Australia it would be something like 'Hey, are yous all coming, or what?' yelled to friends across a food court after having downed a bucket of fried chicken.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I kinda prefer the y'all 2nd person plural variant over yous, as ye can be connected to the contracted y'.

I'm surprised that one is still associated with the South. The MidWest uses it, Tupac used it in a song, people here use it, but still people think it's Southerner word.

 

[ChristineM]

For yous that think this is modernizing or evolving the English language, do you consider this a move in the right direction?

@PoetPhilosopher @ChristineM @HonestJoe

Anyone else can feel free to chime in as well.

I've heard old and middle English spoken, trust me, it's a good move.

Some of the teenage language spoken is often designed to confuse, it's good to get a recognised definition.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've heard old and middle English spoken, trust me, it's a good move.

It definitely is. Especially as some English so old it helps to know German and so old a modern audience largely will not he able to know amd understand more than a handful of words in Beowulf and may mistake it for a different language entirely.

 

[crossfire]

I'm surprised that one is still associated with the South. The MidWest uses it, Tupac used it in a song, people here use it, but still people think it's Southerner word.

I like y'all better than the you guys commonly used here. I've heard the Chinook Jargon mesika here and there, but it is not commonly used. I'd like to see if we can get an alternate to you guys started here.

 

[HonestJoe]

I suppose I was just hopeful it would evolve to bring new words to new discoveries or concepts, not take what was once considered bad grammar and make it correct.

Both of those things happen and always will. Much of what we consider "correct" grammar or spelling won't have always been so, even relatively recently. Your grandparents probably had very similar objections to how your generation used language when they were you age.

For yous that think this is modernizing or evolving the English language, do you consider this a move in the right direction?

I'm not convinced it is a "right or wrong" question. Language changes based on how people use it and how people use it is based on what works for them. There has always been massive variation across place, social grouping or purpose in addition to time, so the question of what is "right" becomes even more complicated.

 

[PureX]

Once I heard "ya'll" I never looked back. But then I grew up near Pittsburgh where they said "you'uns". So ...

 

[Jedster]

I've heard old and middle English spoken, trust me, it's a good move.

Some of the teenage language spoken is often designed to confuse, it's good to get a recognised definition.

Yes, just like the word 'wicked'.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

What is happening with language right now?!

It's evolving, like it always has.

It's inevitable.

2000 years from now, we will not be speaking french, english, italian, dutch...
we'll be speaking "sub-species" of those languages.

Just like how 2000 years ago the ancestors of the french, italian and spanish didn't speak respectively french, italian or spanish. They spoke latin instead.