[156881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 28 10:40:27 2012
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:18:54 -0700."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:38:42 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:18:54 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
>
> 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.
Somebody I know once described somebody else as 'pendantic'. I asked "Don't
you mean pedantic?" and he replied "No, *you're* pedantic for asking. He just
hangs around with nothing better to do."
:)
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