[Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 28 13:01:04 UTC 2021


HDAS has several figurative "guys" (applied to women) from as early as
(IIRC) the '30s. (Or at least many decades ago.)

JL

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:14 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Yes, but as mentioned upthread we’re talking singular, non-vocative uses
> of “guy".  “You guys” is neither.
>
> > On Jan 27, 2021, at 11:44 PM, Horatius <
> 00000e76b69c74bf-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > We definitely have lots of examples of using 'you guys' to address
> crowds of mixed gender.
> >
> > Verzonden met ProtonMail Mobile
> >
> > -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
> > Aan 28 jan. 2021 01:57, Jonathan Lighter schreef:
> >
> >> Not new, but worth noting:
> >>
> >> Gina McCarthy, White House Climate Adviser (age 66), on CNN just now:
> >>
> >> "I'm the dude who's supposed to deliver this in a timely way."
> >>
> >> JL
> >> --
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