Let Me Introduce Y’all to Y’all

Mason Egger

Inclusive language is vital to communities. We should avoid gendered pronouns when speaking about broad groups, but some of these vernaculars are ingrained deep in language as well as culture. Thankfully: a clever piece of Texan slang provides a solution. This will be the most Texas thing you’ve ever seen as I explain the history and proper usage of the greatest accomplishment of the English language, Y'all.

About Mason Egger

Mason is currently a Sr. Technical Curriculum Developer at Temporal Technologies who specializes building community, developer-focused educational content, distributed systems, and Python. Prior to his work at Temporal he launched Developer Relations at Gretel.ai as the Lead Developer Advocate, and was a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean specializing in Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies. He’s an avid programmer, speaker, educator, and writer/blogger. He is an organizer of PyTexas, President of the PyTexas Foundation, and actively contributes to open source projects.

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