Hey linguistic dorks:
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@locha @brooke @ZachWeinersmith that's a shame. When I was there in the early teens, there were quite a few linguists studying the local dialect.
@WizardOfDocs @brooke @ZachWeinersmith Now that I think about it, the local themselves were being gentrified out to the outskirts, and replaced by large populations of students and tech workers (it was during the peak of the foreign students boom)
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@WizardOfDocs @brooke @ZachWeinersmith Now that I think about it, the local themselves were being gentrified out to the outskirts, and replaced by large populations of students and tech workers (it was during the peak of the foreign students boom)
@WizardOfDocs @brooke @ZachWeinersmith Has to be disruptive to a local dialect.
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Hey linguistic dorks:
So, I grew up in Texas where "y'all" was normal, though not always used when outside the US South. In the last 10-20 years, it seems like it's become normal. Like I see Canadians using it. But it occurred to me that I *actually* only see it used online. I had the impression that Y'all basically won the Second Person Plural wars via the popularity of AAVE, but perhaps it's more of an online slang usage?
@ZachWeinersmith I always thought it was a southern US thing, but in the last year I've heard it so much in Utah, Wyoming, and Oregon. I recently brought it to the attention of my husband and some friends.
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