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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that never sits right with me where I live is “guys.”

The one positive thing I took away from living in the south was the gender-neutral "y'all."

For those who don't know, "y'all" refers to a small group of people and "all y'all" refers to a larger group of people.

I like to play with words and create colourful, cutesy terms. Probably my favourite for this purpose is "critter" :3 Everycritter, anycritter, you critters, those critters. ... Of course if that stops being weird I'll have to come up with a new one. Hmm. I suppose I must mandate that only the cutest critters use this particular term >:P

Also, it's nice to see I'm not totally alone in caring about these things. Though some common themes around here (such as the problematic careless word choice issues referenced above) are quite upsetting I at least manage to say some things like this that typically get me attacked. ... Though maybe it's just because I only say them three-plus layers down a comment tree nocritter's gonna see. 🤷‍♀