Everybody’s going bro this and bruh that, but you’re not my brother, dude 😒
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
Fuck! I’ve been using it wrong for years then. What’s a good alternative? Mate is ungendered? I like mate
Here’s the first definition of the word fellow on wiktionary:
Like fellow, mate isn’t inherently gendered, but in informal use it pretty much is. You wouldn’t typically address a woman as “mate” either
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
Y’all, maybe
Isn’t that super Yankee?
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
In the Spanish-speaking world there are definitely a lot of people calling USians “yanquis”. So yeah, to me y’all is specifically yanqui.
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 😎
Yinz. And everyone will think you’re from northwestern Pennsylvania or the UP of Michigan
Yinz… I’ll look into it, thanks! Any other localisms that I can use to sound charming and funny a non-native?
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
Folks is also good! Thanks a lot!
Can’t believe I didn’t think of folks
Yous sounds like, or maybe yas.
Can’t believe you’re encouraging the blatant appropriation of Italian-American culture
Sounds bri’ish, as in “all o’yus”