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I’m sorry but I HATE folks. I’m down with virtually all other gender neutral terms, but I psychologically can’t uncouple ‘folks’ from pseudo-homespun charm put on by people who are sleazebags for various reasons. Anything but folks, I beg (general) you
Another fine word ruined by the US.
I use folks all the time!
...but i'm also a server at waffle house, so I guess I am using southern culture and folksy charm to sell you waffles and coffee. It's a soulless existence, I know, but at least I have my cold, hard cash tips to keep me warm at night.
I love “folks”! It makes me think of folklore and looney tunes.
I use the word folks regularly :(
That makes me sad
It makes me sad that it made you sad so to correct this I'll go out of my way to use folks from time to time
Yay
That's all folks!
Don’t let one person’s pet peeves determine your language, even if they’re my pet peeves!
It comes from the German "volks" (literally "people"), so I just think of it like that. "What's up people?" doesn't sound strange, does it?
Well no, it doesn't, because it's a different word. Plenty of words have similar meanings or origins while having very different connotations from each other. See for example the whole [saxon? norman? whatever] vs french root thing in english, where words with identical meanings but different root languages came to have different connotations (worker vs laborer) or even different meanings (cow vs beef).
I only use it to refer to my "parents" cuz saying parents otherwise makes me feel like I'm in grade school again or some shit. Otherwise to refer to others as folks feels weird to me.