"Frogleg" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:36:16 -0500, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >I tried to find it online, but no luck. There was a call for people
> >to write in to the restaurant critic of my local paper asking for
> >opinions on what offends them ... well, I'll just key in the first
> >paragraph:
> >
> >"Listen, you guys, enough already. And that includes me. I never
> >thought, not once, when I asked readers and restaurant employees a
> >couple of months back to talk about matters of service that so many
> >folks would be offended by a casual expression used by servers in
> >addressing diners at restaurants: "What can I get you guys?"
>
> You hit a nerve. I'm a part-time grammar cop, and "guy/guys" drives me
> up the wall. I've been protesting to local media for some time that
> terms such as "victim", "suspect", "man," "young man," etc. are more
> appropriate for professional journalism. Not to mention "you guys"
> becoming gender-neutral. Oddly, one news director I spoke to thought
> "guy" was perfectly OK, but was horrified to find one of his reporters
> had refererred to a young college woman as a "girl." In fact, the
> "girl" had been attacked by a "guy" who ran into the woods. Babe,
> dude, chick, brother, are only a heartbeat away.

Sup wit yo? Dissin street talk?

Jack Cube