Question about updates
Doug
dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Sat Aug 27 04:51:25 UTC 2011
On 08/26/2011 11:57 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
/snip/
>
> That's carrying PC to extremes. To be really PC, grammatically gender
> terms should now be accepted to be inclusive of both sexes. Otherwise
> the terms connote there are still differences 'to take note of' when
> we shouldn't. Just my 2 drachmas.
>
> Chairwoman. Mankind. You guys.....etc.
>
> Regards - Goh Lip
I heard a young California woman talking to a bunch of her girlfriends
use the word "guys" back around 1956!
I think it is pretty much uni-sex by now.
--doug
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Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
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