required plural marking in 2PP
    Wilson Gray 
    hwgray at GMAIL.COM
       
    Mon Jul  9 03:57:13 UTC 2012
    
    
  
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> but "guys" still has the hint of excluding women
But it's been being used by women to include women since at least the
late on the various campuses of UCal.
OTOH, it *ought* to exclude them! WTF? Was willt das Weib? ;-)
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