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Everybody's going bro this and bruh that, but you're not my brother, dude ๐Ÿ˜’

It's not like either word is new but I feel like "bro" and variations like bruh or brah have become way more commonly used in the last decade among younger people as a term of address in contexts where I would have just said dude

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[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Fuck... So what's a cool non-gendered word that I can use for plural? I thought fellas and mates were cool...

Shitheads

Fuckasses

Motherfuckers

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quite the opposite actually since "y'all" is associated with the Southern United States

"Yank" is what people outside the US derisively call Americans, "Yankee" is what Southerners call Northerners

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Yank" is what people outside the US derisively call Americans

In the Spanish-speaking world there are definitely a lot of people calling USians "yanquis". So yeah, to me y'all is specifically yanqui.

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

In Finnish, the the equivalent word is "jenkki" (the j is pronounced like y)

People in the Southern states see themselves as different from the North, but to everyone else around the world they're all just a bunch of annoying Yanks ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yous sounds like, or maybe yas.

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yous

Can't believe you're encouraging the blatant appropriation of Italian-American culture

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds bri'ish, as in "all o'yus"

[โ€“] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yinz. And everyone will think you're from northwestern Pennsylvania or the UP of Michigan

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yinz... I'll look into it, thanks! Any other localisms that I can use to sound charming and funny a non-native?

[โ€“] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are many but yinz y'all and folks are the only ones I use for the most part so they're the only ones coming to mind for me

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Folks is also good! Thanks a lot!

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Can't believe I didn't think of folks obama-sad