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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