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Is "guy" gender-neutral? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2011年2月9日 · The word guy is singularity male and the word guys can only be assigned gender neutrality if it wasn't used to describe men specifically, and which 99 percent of articles that refer to men uses the word guys. If the word men is considered sexist and non-inclusive, the word guys is right beside it.
orthography - What is the possessive of "you guys"? - English …
Your guys’ and your guys’s seem to both be “acceptable” (i.e. used normally by native speakers) in the greater Philadelphia area; you guys’ and you guys’s might be common elsewhere, but they sound a bit strange to me. (In Philadelphia proper, youse guys’ is probably used too!)
single word requests - Is there a male equivalent of 'bitch'?
2014年5月5日 · While I know you can attribute 'bitch' to a male, I feel there is a sense of femininity. I was wondering if there is a colloquial equivalent that describes someone with the qualities of a 'bitch'
How to say hello to a group of people? [closed]
In a colloquial register, one often says “Hi guys”, and one uses this irrespective of the gender distribution in the group addressed. A more Southern-sounding version is “Hey y’all”. An extremely informal version is “Hello people”.
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
In SoCal or California in general it's still just dude. It's almost the perfect gender neutral word. Girls call each other dude, guys call girls dude. Dictionaries like to drone on about it being male, but dudette never caught on and dude has been gender neutral for like 50-60 years. –
connotation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2020年1月22日 · An Atlantic article, "The Problem with 'Hey Guys'", describes people consciously choosing to replace guys with the gender-neutral folks (it also mentions y'all), and says that folks is preferable to people because people is "too often pushy and impersonal." However, this is just in the context of using it as a second-person plural pronoun.
Term for group of guys attempting to show who is alpha?
2017年6月27日 · The guys were busy trying to outdo each other. It is challenging to work with men who are trying to outdo you. Verb be more successful than. "the men tried to outdo each other in their generosity" synonyms: surpass, outshine, overshadow, eclipse, outclass, outmaneuver, get the better of, put in the shade, upstage; More
“You Guys” or “You, Guys” [closed] - English Language & Usage ...
2016年6月22日 · “What do you, guys, think about the book?” doesn't sound too odd to me. It can mean either “What do you (being guys, not girls) think about the book?” or “What do you think about the book, guys?”. In the latter sense, I'd say it's probably audibly indistinguishable from just using you guys as the subject. –
Can you say "see you then/there" when arranging a meeting?
Short Answer "See you there" and "see you then" are both fine. They are somewhere between formal English (see alternative phrases below) and informal/spoken language, where a "see you" or even "see ya/cheers/cu" might suffice.
What is a common word that describes men who don't attract …
2012年9月9日 · It's often said that "nice guys finish last" or a "nice guy" is "unlucky in love". However, not all who fail romantically are necessarily "nice guys". As has been pointed out in the comments, it's possible the man is involuntarily celibate. Such people are colloquially referred to …