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On 2012 Jan 1, Sun, at 1:14 am, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote:
> On 01.01.2012, at 08:48, Anne Cuneo wrote:
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>> I wish you all a good 2012
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> Same to you Anne.
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>> PS. This conversation started with a resounding «Guys», so I felt
>> a bit excluded.
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> You are not excluded because "guys" refers to people of either sex,
> both men and women (see Dictionary.app).
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> :-)
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> Žorvaršur Davķšsson
> OS X 10.6.8
> MacBook Pro 17'
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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
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