Posted on 10/30/2021 2:37:56 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
What’s in a name?
Enough to lead people to be unintentionally dismissive and disrespectful of someone by misgendering them, according to the University of Pittsburgh.
But now, Pitt has published a gender-inclusive language guide that includes a set of “non-sexist language guidelines and resources” to help students and faculty avoid “unintentionally creating a sexist and homophobic classroom environment.”
In the guide, “yinz” is a suggested substitute for “ladies and gentlemen.”
The guidelines include advice such as “do not limit yourself to male examples or heterosexual examples. Teachers can and should honor the breadth of experience and potential in students’ lives by discussing women, gender nonconforming and LGBT-identified people. For example, avoid giving examples that assume that all doctors are men.”
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These people need to be executed.
maybe they meant yids
Yinz so cwazzah~!!
better than yuns tho.
Yinz need to redd up your language.
I thought Yinz was from the Pennsyltucky language.
Seems that it is a local usage...
yinz
[yinz]
WHAT DOES YINZ MEAN?
Yinz is a Pittsburgh equivalent to y’all. It is used to address two or more people as a second-person plural pronoun.
Yinz (see History and usage below for other spellings) is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English, most prominently in Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the cultural region known as Appalachia, located within the geographical region of the Appalachians.[1]
Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or “yous ones”, a form of the second person plural commonly heard in parts of Ulster. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tú, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following, therefore, is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you’uns [juːʌnz] > youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form,[2] there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania, which is why the pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you’uns, y’ins, y’uns, yunz, yuns, yinz, yenz, yins or ynz.
In other parts of the U.S., Irish or Scots-Irish speakers encountered the same gap in the second-person plural. For this reason, these speakers are also responsible for coining the yunz used in and around Middletown, Pennsylvania, as well as the youse found mainly in New York City, the Philadelphia dialect and New Jersey, and the ubiquitous y’all of the South.[3]
A similar form with similar Irish/Scots roots is found further north in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Rarely written, it is spelled yous, and is usually pronounced as [jɪ̈z] or something between [jɪ̈z] and [jʊ̈z]. It is sometimes combined with all for emphasis, as in “Are yous all coming to the party?” This usage is also used widely within Carbon and Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
When you think of it, what they call “misgendering” people is referring to them by their REAL gender. In other words they are DEMANDING that we “misgender” people.
“Hi, I’m BilltheDrill and my personal pronouns are ‘yinz’ and ‘youse’.”
As in “Whereizit yinz got all that there moonshine?”
How many decades experience has everybody had with women addressing a mixed gender or even female group as “you guys”? My first memory of that is 1981.
“Yinz” sounds like some sort of Yiddish or New Joisy sexual slur. “She’s just a yinz, ignore her.”
Obviously, people over there have far too much time on their hands.
Yinz is acceptable up there similarly to how y’all or all y’all is acceptable down there.
That said, ladies and gentlemen is entirely acceptable, and I don’t care if a genderfluid otherkin gets upset. I’m about done with pandering to mental illness.
At least 5
I predict one day that ‘yinz’ will be a racist term. Folks, you heard it here first!
These yinzers have gone too far.
>>>In the guide, “yinz” is a suggested substitute for “ladies and gentlemen.”<<<
I still prefer the term, “youse.”
I prefer yutes.
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