/lit/ - Literature

when non brits say whilst
>>15709024
dumb frogposter

>>15709034
what about midst or amongst?

>>15709024
I love y'all, it's a gap filling word to make up for the lack of a plural for 'you' in English which does exist in other languages. Y'all is so much better than "you guys" or "you people" or "all of you." I hope it catches on.

I've never heard finna/trynna or prolly

ppl is smartphone/net slang all of which needs to die

So with a long vowel is a good substitution for very or really, because it effectively captures that sound of awe at something extreme.

literally is a fine word so long as it's used properly to signify that you are not speaking figuratively


If I could get rid of a word it would be getting rid of kindly used as a substitute for please.

>>15709024
*makes fun of the popular kids at his school on the internet so his ego isnt completely shattered

>>15709024
I love finna but otherwise agree with you

>>15709121
>it's a gap filling word to make up for the lack of a plural for 'you
Just use ye

>>15709024
I hate all words of Romantic blood. But the damage is done and it is too hard to have a purely Germanic English at this point

>>15709024
>oppressive
>rape
>feminist
>white
>black
>coronavirus
>social justice
>equality
>inalienable
>queer
>acceptance
>together
>women
>reparations
>hair
>change
>global warming
>empowering
>netflix
>diversity
>billie eilish

>>15709146
eternally cucked by the norman invasion kek

>>15709121
"You" is already plural. There's no gap.

>>15709136
Not even Anglo-American. Try again.

If I was an african-american, I would probably be more upset over woke retards appropriating my slang for their shitty tweets than over actual Nazis.

>>15709193
Actual Nazis died a long time ago.

>>15709158
>china
>constitution
>nationalist
>nazi
>trump
>fascist
>bootlicker
>woke
>alt-right

>>15709158
someone's got a fragile worldview!

>trans woman
>cis gender

>>15709234
>someone's got a fragile worldview!

problematic literally makes me seethe

>>15709228
>rally
>twitter
>communism
>problematic
>toxic
>queen
>bigotry

Yo yo yooooo
so y'all be sayin
so ppl prolly be sayin
that dis wyte boi literally tryna hate on us niggass....

>>15709024

>Deadass

>>15709445
>[anything] ass

>>15709164
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S A MULTIPLICITY OF USES O A SINGLE WORD WTF

You buggin OP.

>>15709193
How do you think Spics feel, given that "latinx" is soon going to be the legal term to refer to a POBs?

>>15709158
You missed "folx"

>>15709024

Why did English speakers stop using thee, thine, thou

It's not very hard, I learnt it from videogames, and would solve the you/you all issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2P4vSCjgzo

>>15709824
>given that "latinx" is soon going to be the legal term to refer to a POBs?
what the fuck. source?

>>15709824

the thing leftists obsessed with gender do here is use the vowel E as neutral marker

so latinos only refers to men, latinas to women, latines is the gender neutral form
a common example is
Gracias a todes instead of Gracias a todos (many thanks to all)

it is still very resisted by the majority of people

>>15709904
>it is still very resisted by the majority of people
yea, because it's retarded.

>>15709024
>y'all
I will never stop being made that niggers and niggerlovers co-opted this word from my Texan brethren

>>15709904
I'm in Argentina atm and these niggas for real do this (not just young people but some old ass people too) and it is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. It's not even Spanish idk wtf they're thinking if they're thinking at all

>>15709892
I'm just meming.

>>15709904
So how awkward does that sound? I'm not a Spanish speaker, is this more or less equivelant to pronouns like "xye" and "xyezem"?

pretty much all the new words added to the dictionary in the 21st century
>selfie
>holla
>clap back
>triggered
>microagression
>crunked
>re-imagining

>>15710074
agreed, the only people who try and pull "latinx" are either american white liberals or 2nd or 3rd generation spics that have become indoctrinated by the aforementioned slime and try to enforce their arbitrary social justice shit to compensate for their lack of identity.
it's basically just american imperialism, just gone from economic to cultural

>>15709158
>microaggression

>>15709121
>I love y'all, it's a gap filling word to make up for the lack of a plural for 'you' in English which does exist in other languages.
"You" actually is plural. Singular is "Thou".

>>15709024
White people co-opted ebonics because they envy BBC, more at 11.

>>15709024
>Cisgender
>White race
>Wypipo
>People Of Color
>Latinx
>Amerindian
>South Asian
>peoples
>Nazism

>>15709034
I swear American Redditors spell words in the British way, like “tonne.” I want to kill these people

>toxic
>shitty

>>15709024
'Trynna' and 'prolly' are great words though. Nobody trynna give a speech when different words would suffice.

>>15710877
Sometimes I catch myself doing it by accident but I want to say that's because of what I read.

>>15710065
It’s a sjw word now

>>15709034
something about the way british women say that word makes me hard

>>15709024
comfy
“cute and funny”
kek

>like
>whatever
>totally
>literally
>you have issues

>>15710901
Hilarious cause it’s almost always cultural appropriation.

>>15709121
Here in Ireland we use "youse" as a plural for you (pronounced use)

Not sure if it's correct linguistically but it works

>heckin
>adulting
>chonker
>doggo

>gentrification
>appropriate

>fire
>slaps
>issues

>>15709824
Hearing lateenecks out loud for the first time hurt me in my soul. It's just so dumb. No latino from a working class background uses that stupid word.

>>15710867
>South Asian
Is right though. It applies to people from the Indian subcontinent. But Sri Lankans, Pakistani's, Nepalese, Burmese and Bangladeshis dislike the term 'Indian Subcontinent' and they hate being referred to as 'American Indians'. They're not Indians. So South Asian is the best if you don't want some angry curry eater reeeing as you or spitting in your food.

>>15709024
>grandfather as a verb

>>15710904
UK has loads of different accents. Geordie or Scouser women saying whilst isn't as fun as some posh souf bint.

>>15709024
finna is a lesser version of the grand ol' "fixin'to"

y'all is based

>>15710961
In Australia youse is also not unheard of. The kind of thing primary school teachers try to beat out of students though.

>>15710990
Let the burgerclap have his fantasy

>>15711012
it's joggerspeak and therefore cringe.

>>15710985
No. India is its own continent. Fuck entitled Pakis.

>>15711053
did you know your a got dang dumb dumb not worthy of the truck what delivers your food

>>15709164
>>15710504
Nobody uses you as a plural in common speech. And for good reason, it creates confusion because you don't know if the subjects is the individual being spoken to or the individual and their group

>>15711099
>what is body language
I swear you cunts are autists with zero taste.

>>15709034
Technically every Englishman is a non-Brit. The Anglo-Saxons replaced the Britons.

>>15711105

The issue with that is every english speaking country outside of Murrica is literate and thus cannot rely on body language all the time

>>15711813
They have their own non-nigger versions, though.

>>15709158
>toxic
>inclusive
>racist
>privilege
>oppression
>equality
>intersectionality
>systemic

>>15709024
folks

Test

>>15709121
reddit spacing and shit opinions. neck yourself

Blah

>>15709024
Thicc

>>15709024
Karen

>>15709121
Kys. Just say everyone. Not had Ameritard.

"Deadass"
Ignoring the made up buzzwords from the tranny left because that's low-hanging fruit.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, /lit/ is full of very stupid people who are under the illusion that they are smart.

for example


>>15712088

everyone is broader than y'all you stupid faggot

and >>15711949

'reddit spacing' is a reddit tier brainlet argument

>>15709456
Not originally. “You” was the plural form of thou and thee.

mental health

>>15710961
sounds like shit outside of ireland

>>15709121
the whole post is dogshit except the last line

poggers innovative bougie on fleek social distancing

>>15709121
"you guys"

Excuse me OP, I believe you mean "youse guys" or in the case of two people(the dual) "two yous." Both are infinitely superior to y'all.

>>15709024
“So” is great though, don’t let Twitter posts that use it condescendingly get to you

>>15712952
sorry not OP, poster I mean.

>>15713004
It's good in cases like "it was so good". Bad when it begins a sentence "so my dad told me..."

>>15709121
leave this site

>>15713014
But I like both uses. Starting sentences with “so” is a very old phenomenon in English and if used right it can be cool. Shouldn’t overuse it though.

>>15713034
it's how every valley girl talks. and every zoomer. overused as fuck.

>>15713052
Yes, if you stress it like “Sooo I was just thinking how...” but using it like Shakes does “So that in venturing ill we leave to be the things we are for that which we expect” is amazing

>>15709024
There's literally nothing wrong with literally.

oof

>>15709024
>agenda
This word's most faddish usage is a slimy way of evading the much more personal, and telling, matter of motives, interests, drives. Its use almost always registers refusal or inability to introspect, and some degree of paranoia. For this reason alone I never use it except in the narrow context of a business meeting or operating theater.

>>15714754
"agenda" just means a kind of organizer by dates in Spanish.