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hellisothers | on: Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
This is/was absolutely a thing and I saw it happen to others and switched to y’all, I got called out for using “dude” and come on dude, dude is extremely gender neutral in this sense.
vigilantpuma | parent
I have not been able to bring myself to use y’all, it just seems so fake and performative. I am not a southerner, why am I y’alling people?
sdenton4 | root | parent
Pennsylvania uses 'yins' for the second person plural, if you'd like a confusing alternative!