On 2012 Jan 1, Sun, at 1:14 am, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:

> On 01.01.2012, at 08:48, Anne Cuneo wrote:
>
>> I wish you all a good 2012
>
> Same to you Anne.
>
>
>>
>> PS. This conversation started with a resounding «Guys», so I felt  
>> a bit excluded.
>
> You are not excluded because "guys" refers to people of either sex,  
> both men and women (see Dictionary.app).
>
> :-)
>
> Þorvarður Davíðsson
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The dictionary and common usage condone the loose interpretation, but  
I have long felt it a deterioration of language, made more poignant  
by a contradictory trend in the opposite direction— that of  
obliterating the broad meaning of "he" and "man" to include the whole  
of man-kind, inducing the cumbersome use of such things as he/she,  
reinventing words like chairman or horseman to chairperson and  
horseperson.

So just because the dictionary or status quo say we can, doesn't mean  
we should. :-)

	Ben in Montana