Comment by lurk2
15 hours ago
You appear to be German so I will assume you lack the cultural context to understand why these two things are not comparable. Asking someone born outside of the deep south to refer to a group of people as “y’all” is so absurd my immediate assumption would be that my coworker was playing a joke on me.
I'm very much not from anywhere resembling the American south, and "you all" is very much a part of my lexicon.
“You all” is distinct from “y’all.” The former is atypical but doesn’t sound weird, the latter was appropriated by turbo-liberals in the mid-2010s to signal that they listen to Kendrick Lamar.
It's very different when written out, but when speaking aloud it blends and becomes difficult to distinguish.