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Folks or y'all is acceptable.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:18 pm Folks or y'all is acceptable.
I've started to adopt yinz.
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I'd also say "you guys" but apparently that's a nono. I'm not sure I've ever treated "you guys" as anything other than gender neutral. That's another I'm probably too old to change term.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... ation.html

It's a long op ed detailing facts today regarding the US Holocaust Museum and responding to their establishing an official statement that rejects any analogies related to The Holocaust. Here's the opening paragraph
A federally funded museum is telling Americans not to think. On June 24, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum instructed the public not to consider the relationship between its subject, other historical events, and the present, implicitly reprimanding Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for calling American detention centers “concentration camps.” In doing so, it has made nonsense of the slogan “never again” and provided moral cover for ongoing and oppressive American policies.
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Isgrimnur wrote:Folks or y'all is acceptable.
I live in the south, but I am not from the south. It’s impossible for y’all to cross my lips unless I’m making fun of something. Folks.... just isn’t me. “Heya folks!”... I cant do it.

Yinz is a dangerous word for me. A gateway word. If I say yinz then my western PA accent will come back, and that could ruin my career.
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msteelers wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:50 pm
Isgrimnur wrote:Folks or y'all is acceptable.
I live in the south, but I am not from the south. It’s impossible for y’all to cross my lips unless I’m making fun of something. Folks.... just isn’t me. “Heya folks!”... I cant do it.

Yinz is a dangerous word for me. A gateway word. If I say yinz then my western PA accent will come back, and that could ruin my career.
Hey everybody or hi all works as well.
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LordMortis wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:49 pm I'd also say "you guys" but apparently that's a nono. I'm not sure I've ever treated "you guys" as anything other than gender neutral. That's another I'm probably too old to change term.
"Guys" is ok. Every stupid YouTube unboxing/review/whatever video starts with "Ok, guys..." or "Hey guys!" or some derivation. That makes it OK in general conversation.
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I live in NC so "y'all" is considered the Queen's English.

The other day I found myself saying "all y'all" which is when I realized I'm a lost cause.
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Malificent wrote:Hey everybody
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YellowKing wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:01 pm I live in NC so "y'all" is considered the Queen's English.

The other day I found myself saying "all y'all" which is when I realized I'm a lost cause.
All y'all is perfectly acceptable. It's the plural for y'all. It's meant to either emphasize every individual in group is included: "All y'all can kiss my ass" or it is meant to group groups of people together in to a single larger unit: "OK all y'all, listen up. Everyone mus be here on Tuesday at eight sharp."

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I have no idea what yinz is. It sounds like holiday food I'd put a tiny bit of my plate, not trusting what it is.
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After spending the last decade working primarily with diversity and inclusion officers, I've become much more conscious about using "guys" as well. That one's a big no-no in the D&I community.

I always use "folks" or "everyone" now. I'll occasionally throw in a "y'all" as well, just for the lulz ("Wait...aren't you from Utah?"). :lol:
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LordMortis wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:05 pmI have no idea what yinz is. It sounds like holiday food I'd put a tiny bit of my plate, not trusting what it is.
Yinz is the Y'all of the Pittsburgh area.
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I call my kids "guys" all the time despite 33% of them being female.
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More than 3,100 people will leave Bureau of Prisons custody starting Friday, part of what Justice Department officials call "a truly monumental effort" to comply with the First Step Act, a criminal justice law passed by Congress last year.

Most of the offenders being freed have been convicted of drug-related crimes, and have been living in halfway houses across the United States in preparation for their release, acting BOP chief Hugh Hurwitz told reporters at a news conference in Washington.

Approximately 900 of the inmates are subject to detention by local authorities or immigration officials, and their fate now will be up to states or the Department of Homeland Security, he said.

The Justice Department announced that 250 more inmates who are elderly or terminally ill have transitioned into home confinement or compassionate release programs since President Trump signed the law last December.

Those programs existed in some form before the First Step Act, but advocates for prisoners and their families said they were used only sparingly and now are somewhat easier to access.
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Authorities also unveiled a new risk assessment tool designed to identify prisoners who could benefit from prison programming that would allow them to win credits that count toward early release under the law.

Inmates will be reassessed every six months under that new program.
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The Justice Department enlisted a think tank, the Hudson Institute, to assist with the assessment effort. But that decision has come under fire from key Democrats in Congress.

"The Hudson Institute and its leadership have opposed sentencing reform, opposed the First Step Act's reforms, and authored an article entitled 'Why Trump Should Oppose Criminal Justice Reform,'" as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and subcommittee chairwoman Karen Bass said earlier this year.
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I'm a Southerner without almost no accent (long story) living in PA.

"Y'all" comes very naturally to me, but I can sometimes see that people wonder why I'm using it since I speak in a regionless American radio voice.
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Y'inz is incorrect it is you'inz...well unless its the short form that all the rage.
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I've lived in the Mid-Atlantic for almost 20 years, but my soul still rebels every time I hear "youse guys."
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Daehawk wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:55 pm Y'inz is incorrect it is you'inz...well unless its the short form that all the rage.
Yinz is absolutely the most correct.
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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:44 pm I mostly just shrug at this stuff. I think it's entirely unnecessary and frankly rather silly, but it has no real effect on anyone's life so...meh.

Yes, it's annoying to hear the deplorables bray about it, but let's be honest, they're always going to complain about things that provide even the slightest impediment to them being giant assholes to everyone around them. It may as well be something like this that ultimately has no impact on anything.
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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:18 pm After spending the last decade working primarily with diversity and inclusion officers, I've become much more conscious about using "guys" as well. That one's a big no-no in the D&I community.

I always use "folks" or "everyone" now. I'll occasionally throw in a "y'all" as well, just for the lulz ("Wait...aren't you from Utah?"). :lol:
When I worked in HR, I actually quoted some off color lines from Blazing Saddles in front of people who could be offended by it (including my direct report). Fortunately they knew me well enough (and liked me) to know that it was just a quote, but over 10 years later I still feel sheepish about it...
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Alefroth wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:59 pm
Daehawk wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:55 pm Y'inz is incorrect it is you'inz...well unless its the short form that all the rage.
Yinz is absolutely the most correct.
Daehawk is right. It’s always been “you’inz” or “you’uns” to those of us who grew up in what’s considered Appalachia...or at least the edge of it.
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hepcat wrote:
Alefroth wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:59 pm
Daehawk wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:55 pm Y'inz is incorrect it is you'inz...well unless its the short form that all the rage.
Yinz is absolutely the most correct.
Daehawk is right. It’s always been “you’inz” or “you’uns” to those of us who grew up in what’s considered Appalachia...or at least the edge of it.
You’re clearly not a yinzer.
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Heretic!

Anyway, you’uns wrong.
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hepcat wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:44 pm
Alefroth wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:59 pm
Daehawk wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:55 pm Y'inz is incorrect it is you'inz...well unless its the short form that all the rage.
Yinz is absolutely the most correct.
Daehawk is right. It’s always been “you’inz” or “you’uns” to those of us who grew up in what’s considered Appalachia...or at least the edge of it.
They are probably all used to some degree, but to someone who grew up in Pittsburgh, it's yinz.
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Chicago seems to use “guys” for groups. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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It took me almost 4 years before I stopped pronouncing "wash" as "worsh". I also still find myself using "fixin' to" when I mean to say "planning to" at times. I'm a born hillbilly.
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hepcat wrote:It took me almost 4 years before I stopped pronouncing "wash" as "worsh". I also still find myself using "fixin' to" when I mean to say "planning to" at times. I'm a born hillbilly.
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lol...another one I remember from my childhood. My mother used to tell me to "red up my room" all the time when I was a kid.
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Around here its always been 'you'inz', 'ya'll', 'far as in start a far, Kmark, tars for tires, thare for there, warsh for wash, wasper for wasp(my wife corrected me on this just last year bless her), and so on and such such.

And Id never know what red up meant.
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All I can think of is red rum from The Shining.
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You'ns isn't the problem. It is when it becomes possessive that it gets scary. Yer'n or yer'ns.

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Watch your top knot. Watch yorn.
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Will do. Mind yer backtrail.
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I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention-

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49091523
South Korea says its jets fired flares and machine-gun warning shots when Russian planes intruded.
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Looks like the 9/11 First Responders bill will pass. About damn time.

Let's all take a moment to appreciate this image as well.

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That is excellent. The news and the image.
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Fuck McConnell. That it took this long is a travesty.
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malchior wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:38 pm Fuck McConnell. That it took this long is a travesty.
Don't forget Rand Paul.

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Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:40 pm
malchior wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:38 pm Fuck McConnell. That it took this long is a travesty.
Don't forget Rand Paul.
Oh I don't. In the grand scheme of things Rand Paul delayed it a little. McConnell delayed it a lot.
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Three US university students have been suspended from their fraternity after posing with guns in front of a memorial honouring a slain civil rights icon.

The photo, obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows the three brandishing firearms by the bullet-ridden sign.

The memorial honours 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose torture and murder in 1955 galvanised the civil rights movement.

The three may now face an investigation by the Department of Justice.

"The photo is inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable," said a representative of the Kappa Alpha fraternity's national order in a statement, adding that "it does not represent" the fraternity.

On its official website, Kappa Alpha Order calls Robert E Lee - a confederate general who fought against the US government during the Civil War - the group's "spiritual founder".

The fraternity's University of Mississippi chapter did not return a request for comment.
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It is unclear if the sign - pocked with bullet holes in the photo - was damaged by the students themselves.

Though the students have been suspended from their fraternity - temporarily banning them from activities hosted by the social club - they have not yet been disciplined by their university.

A spokesman for the school, Rod Guajardo, told BBC News that the students' actions are "offensive and hurtful" but do "not violate the school's code of conduct".
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Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, said the memorial site honouring Till is the subject of constant abuse.
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Mr Weems added that the 50lb (23kg) memorial will be swapped out for a bulletproof 500lb sign made of reinforced steel. It will be dedicated on 19 October with the Till family and the Mississippi Center for Justice.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2019 3:36 pm BBC
Three US university students have been suspended from their fraternity after posing with guns in front of a memorial honouring a slain civil rights icon.

The photo, obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows the three brandishing firearms by the bullet-ridden sign.

The memorial honours 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose torture and murder in 1955 galvanised the civil rights movement.

The three may now face an investigation by the Department of Justice.

"The photo is inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable," said a representative of the Kappa Alpha fraternity's national order in a statement, adding that "it does not represent" the fraternity.

On its official website, Kappa Alpha Order calls Robert E Lee - a confederate general who fought against the US government during the Civil War - the group's "spiritual founder".

The fraternity's University of Mississippi chapter did not return a request for comment.
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It is unclear if the sign - pocked with bullet holes in the photo - was damaged by the students themselves.

Though the students have been suspended from their fraternity - temporarily banning them from activities hosted by the social club - they have not yet been disciplined by their university.

A spokesman for the school, Rod Guajardo, told BBC News that the students' actions are "offensive and hurtful" but do "not violate the school's code of conduct".
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Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, said the memorial site honouring Till is the subject of constant abuse.
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Mr Weems added that the 50lb (23kg) memorial will be swapped out for a bulletproof 500lb sign made of reinforced steel. It will be dedicated on 19 October with the Till family and the Mississippi Center for Justice.
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