[156867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Sep 28 06:29:42 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:29:05 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
In-Reply-To: <543f4532-1271-4f9e-a2e3-d17cea201022@mail.pelican.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> "Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys",
<pedantry>
folk is the plural
and, as far as the use of gender-biased terms, as someone said well the
other day, when you are in a hole, stop digging
randy
