[Sugar-devel] Porting get-books to Gtk3

Manuel Quiñones manuq at laptop.org
Mon Jun 11 11:38:22 EDT 2012


2012/6/11 Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 2012/6/11 Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com>:
>>> Hello guys,
>>
>> Not only guys in this list, though we are majority, let's keep the
>> door open for diversity :)
>
> It's an American English expression:
>
> guys [plural] AmE spoken, used when talking to or about a group of
> people, male or female: Hey you guys! Where are you going?
>
> From the Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman
>
> See you "guys", :P

Tell that to a feminist, she will probably say it's sexist term.  Nice
(long) discussion here:

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/guys_more.html

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