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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