[156841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Sep 27 16:08:46 2012
In-Reply-To: <50649C93.1090002@gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:07:53 -0400
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:36 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/09/12 11:10 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> I really wish that english had better pronouns for this.
>
> I really wish folks would dig a bit deeper into the thesaurus to find
> appropriate words.
I find that "folks" is an excellent replacement that drops in most
places I'm tempted to use "guys."
On the other hand, using "they" as a replacement for "he" or "she"
makes a sentence hard to parse. See that individual over there?
They're fixing it. Ick!
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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