Hello, On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 08:41:19PM +0000, Untrusem wrote: > > Thank you guys for building stuff for others to share and > > use! > > Last but not the least I would like to mention Guix is an > inclusive, We have people from every background, colors. So I would > like to advise you to not use exclusive terms such as `guys` because > not everyone is a `guy`. "everyone", "folks", "all" would > be better and I understand that you didn't mean it in that sense and > as a non-native English speaker (I am) it can be hard. English is hard :P.
It's slightly off-topic, but since you already brought it up, I figured you might find it interesting. All major dictionaries defines "guys" as a gender neutral way of referring to people, e.g.: Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guys): > guys : PERSON — used in plural to refer to the members of a group > regardless of sex > "saw her and the rest of the guys" Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guys): > guys phrase [ plural ] mainly US > used to address a group of people of either sex Collins Dictionary (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/guys): > guys in British English > plural noun informal > persons of either sex Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guys) > guys > plural of guy > (colloquial) Used to address a group of people regardless of gender. > "Hi guys!" (And I can't look at Oxford, because it's paywalled. How lame is that?) So, yeah, while not everyone is a "guy", everyone together is very much "guys". Funny how language evolves, huh? BR, Nemin
