Well "guys" is used in Northern parts of the US as a gender-neutral plural noun. The traditionally Southern US equivalent is Y'all or All Y'All. But yeah, it's likely another artifact of male-dominated culture. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 4:07 AM Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > >>> Good day Guys > > On 10.07.20 09:45, Marc Roos wrote: > >You are being a tad discriminative, by assuming there are no ladies > >reading these messages. Which is highly inappropriate for the current > >thread. ;) > > I thought guys can also mean women, at least I've seen it being used that > way... > > (on old english, word 'man' stood for human, while 'wer man' and 'wif man' > stood for male and female human) > > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > Windows found: (R)emove, (E)rase, (D)elete >
