On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:51:47 GMT, Frogleg > wrote:

>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.

"The Old Guard dies, but it never surrenders."

......Alan. :-)


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