required plural marking in 2PP
Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Mon Jul 9 04:26:40 UTC 2012
On Jul 8, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> 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.
>
It seems that the word "hint" did not communicate as intended.
Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA
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