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Let Me Introduce Y'all Y'all

on YouTube 13m
Talkat All Things Open 2021 · 2021-10-17..10-19· [open-source]

speaker

name:Mason Egger
website:https://www.mason.dev

resources

video:https://youtu.be/MewSOTTlBkk
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that using y'all as a gender‑neutral second‑person plural makes documentation and communities measurably more inclusive, cites origins from Scottish ye all and southern African‑American speech, demonstrates concrete forms — y'all's, contractions like y'all'd y'all've d'all and even yanked — shows subgroup vs all y'all usage, notes ESL/readability tradeoffs, and reports having used it in docs with no major pushback while pointing to a deeper “write docs devs love” session.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:46THE NEED FOR INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
  3. 3:09Y'ALL - THE PLURAL YOU
  4. 5:47THE SIMPLE FORM OF Y'ALL
  5. 7:53Y'ALL CONTRACTIONS
  6. 10:51CONCLUSION

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