Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 30, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
Am 30.04.2005 um 22:58 schrieb Anton Woldhek:
Hello guys,
May indeed be true, but i try to repress the sad possibility. I idealistically hope the PD community might somehow reflect the real
world.Well, I can only speak for American usage, but when you address a large
group of people as "guys", it is generally assumed to be
gender-neutral. Women will often it use it that way also.
I happen to like "y'all" as a gender-neutral form of adress myself. Even more American than "guys", however, and I doubt that "y'all" has made it into "standard Euro-English" usage yet...
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