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Re: The Future of Trains
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lugnet.lego
Date: 
Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:59:46 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Tommy Armstrong wrote:
"You guys" is unacceptable as gender specific

If you go far enough north it isn't!

They also use the other variant, youse guyses, as in, "You got da deep snow over
to youse guyses place, eh?" to which the response would be, "Ya, sure, but we
cleared da path to da sauna!"



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  Re: The Future of Trains
 
(...) :) And don't forget, 'sauna' is a three-syllable word. The 'u' is not silent! Steve (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)

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  Re: The Future of Trains
 
(...) Yes, I am aware that "y'all" does have some connotations--but have decided that it is really the only politically correct, all encompassing, non-gender, non-racial, non-religious specfic pronoun that is available in the English language-at (...) (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)  

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