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Showing Original Post only (View all)Does anyone else think the word "folks" is getting over used? [View all]
I swear every time something happens, it happens to "folks". Why has the word "people" been replaced?
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I have. Almost everyone. I don't mind it when Obama uses it because it seems to
merrily
Nov 2015
#39
First they came for "you guys", then they came for "you people", next they will come for...
GummyBearz
Nov 2015
#18
How is "you people" racist? If a white person says it to one black person to mean an
merrily
Nov 2015
#42
My grandmother used "folks," as did most of the folks in my extended family . . .
Journeyman
Nov 2015
#16
Why would anyone have a problem with "folks?" I've heard it and used it all my life.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2015
#67
I think "people" and "persons" now implies corporations. "Folks" implies humans. nt
valerief
Nov 2015
#80