how many of y'all do this?

6/11/2015 11:01:45 AM

Its a southern thang yo

6/11/2015 11:03:57 AM

|o

6/11/2015 11:09:47 AM

Using "Y'all" in any situation

Don't fucking do it.

6/11/2015 11:11:45 AM

[Edited on June 11, 2015 at 11:17 AM. Reason : .]

6/11/2015 11:16:43 AM

Yankees don't tell me what to do.

Y'all can shut up and learn about sweet tea.

6/11/2015 11:20:23 AM

^

6/11/2015 11:25:20 AM

Internal office emails - yes.

External emails - no.

6/11/2015 11:36:24 AM

I used "Yall", "I reckon", and "Fixing" all the damn time at work. And I ain't even slightly white!

6/11/2015 11:41:53 AM

ain't ain't a word so I ain't gonna say ain't ain't times a day

6/11/2015 11:44:16 AM

6/11/2015 11:49:01 AM

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"Using "Y'all" in any situation Don't fucking do it."

why not? it's hardly unprofessional. it's actually a pretty useful word. "you guys" and "you all" aren't any better and, imo, are worse.

6/11/2015 12:16:21 PM

If anyone has a better suggest for the 2nd person plural, I'd like to hear it.

6/11/2015 12:21:11 PM

Y'all don't have a better word.

6/11/2015 12:26:00 PM

^^sad but true: you

6/11/2015 12:37:14 PM

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"If anyone has a better suggest for the 2nd person plural, I'd like to hear it."

exactly

6/11/2015 1:00:54 PM

6/11/2015 1:13:03 PM

I'll use it in speech internally. But not in an email.

6/11/2015 1:45:51 PM

jaZon you're a goddamn traitor

6/11/2015 3:57:24 PM

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""If anyone has a better suggest for the 2nd person plural, I'd like to hear it.""

yeah, sometimes i feel the need to make it apparent that i'm addressing more than one person, as just using "you" can be confusing to some people. but I still don't use "y'all", i usually end up revising the letter to make it apparent.

6/11/2015 3:59:44 PM

I don't know how professional/formal y'alls work emails are, but mine have always been rather casual and informal. Even in communicating with clients or vendors, it's all fairly casual for me.

And on the topic of saying/writing "y'all" - I feel like my first sentence above is a pretty good example of y'all being easier and better than any alternative. Saying "all of your work emails" or "you guys' work emails" or whatever other alternatives there just are clunky and ugly sounding to me.

6/11/2015 4:18:13 PM

Quote :

"Ye intruders beware..."

6/11/2015 5:38:53 PM

Obviously the correct term is "you people"

6/11/2015 6:04:44 PM

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"If anyone has a better suggest for the 2nd person plural, I'd like to hear it."

"all" isn't technically correct, but it works for me.

I don't like repeating things. So I use all, y'all, and guys.

But "all" is my preference. It's definitely my go-to for starting a large email. But, otherwise, I just list people's actual names.

6/11/2015 7:29:07 PM

Quote :

"Hello everyone"

6/11/2015 7:31:47 PM

'Guise'

6/11/2015 7:35:21 PM

Quote :

"Team,"

6/11/2015 8:41:28 PM

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"jaZon you're a goddamn traitor"

ha ha ha

6/11/2015 9:21:15 PM

Nope

6/11/2015 9:24:26 PM

^you probably use "fuggedaboutit" though

6/11/2015 9:25:41 PM

I never email. I only call.

6/11/2015 9:32:25 PM

Oh, so you're 60?

6/11/2015 9:49:38 PM

I'll call more now, people take forever to respond to emails

6/11/2015 9:56:19 PM

I never call anybody except my parents and doctor's offices.

and nobody ever calls me except these people and telemarketers.

I don't really miss the phone one bit.

6/11/2015 11:48:17 PM

y'all is a word that conveys a tense that "standard english" doesn't account for properly.

6/11/2015 11:58:58 PM

I live in the Midwest, so I particularly like to say it...it's like flashing your "I'm from the south" card

6/12/2015 12:01:00 AM

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"Internal office emails - yes. External emails - no."

sums it up nicely for me too.

6/12/2015 12:35:41 PM

Quote :

"Using "Y'all" in any situation Don't fucking do it."

6/12/2015 1:07:14 PM

YANKEES EXPOSED ITT

6/12/2015 2:52:51 PM

had a lady in one of our Maryland Offices get offended that I began my email with "Hey Lauren," saying that somebody in my position should know better and it was unprofessional. Said she "preceived it as disrespect and apprised the executives here of such"

Our branch chiefs even use "Hey" or "Hey y'all" when addressing the division.

And speaking of professionalism, her emails are in 14pt. Comic Serif font.

Some people, man.


[Edited on August 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM. Reason : .]

8/26/2015 11:10:39 AM

lol what is your email supposed to start with?

8/26/2015 11:22:37 AM

Bonjour

8/26/2015 11:31:01 AM

My boss did it ironically the other day in an email and there was a huge thread of jokes that ensued. I stopped saying y'all for the most part around Californians, but whenever I come back home it instinctively returns.

8/26/2015 11:33:14 AM

I use Hi or Hello ________,

8/26/2015 2:13:28 PM

I can't bring myself to write:

Hello so-and-so,

It needs another comma:

Hello, so-and-so,

But that looks terrible. So I go:

Hello, so-and-so! or Good afternoon, so-and-so!

When an exclamation is too weird for the e-mail's contents, I use Dear so-and-so,

I realize I'm the only one left still rocking "Dear." And I don't shy away from "Sincerely" either. It's not intimate. It's just polite, and if we'd stuck with those things, we wouldn't have to think about this shit.

8/26/2015 7:11:05 PM

I usually just start with their name. No real greeting.

[name,]

[body of email]

8/26/2015 7:20:16 PM

Sup

8/26/2015 7:29:51 PM

peace out y'all

8/26/2015 7:38:36 PM

haha

8/26/2015 7:55:05 PM

Hi so and so,


...

- moron
TWW

8/26/2015 9:38:37 PM