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The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke (ttrpg.network)
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[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. We mostly think of grammatical number as a simple choice of singular vs plural but that's not what we do in real life.

We generally have multiple labels that describe the concept of progressively expanding circles of what's included when we think of ourselves.

There's the very narrow sense of I/me/myself. We have various expansions around us/all'y'all. Jamaicans have the phrase "I and I" which focuses on the individual but explicitly calls out the connection with others.