Thesaurus talk:you
Latest comment: 1 year ago by GreyishWorm in topic RFM discussion: January 2020–November 2022
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...or Thesaurus:you plural or something. We probably shouldn't be using just one dialect's form as the name. At Thesaurus:you, it could also collect other forms of singular you in their own sense-section, like thou and your ass, and things that are synonyms of both senses, like u. - -sche (discuss) 22:39, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
- Agreed. Where I'm from, y'all is either slang, or has the connotation of being something a hic redneck from the Southern States would say. You guys is the more normal way to express it, or in more formal contexts, you all or you folks. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
- Where I'm from, y'all is perfectly standard in all registers while you guys makes you sound like a damyankee, but I acknowledge that that isn't the case in other varieties of English. I'd be in favor of moving the page to Thesaurus:you (plural). —Mahāgaja · talk 09:33, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
- Educated Southerners use y'all in all spoken registers AFAICT, but not much in writing. DCDuring (talk) 16:24, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
- Where I'm from, y'all is perfectly standard in all registers while you guys makes you sound like a damyankee, but I acknowledge that that isn't the case in other varieties of English. I'd be in favor of moving the page to Thesaurus:you (plural). —Mahāgaja · talk 09:33, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
- Fine, I moved it GreyishWorm (talk) 23:55, 9 November 2022 (UTC)