[156878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Sep 28 10:25:18 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2fw621lvy.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:18:54 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:29 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> "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
According to my Dictionary, both "folk" and "folks" are acceptable plurals.
Owen
