On 10/24/2019 8:59 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> >> On 10/24/2019 02:51 AM, David wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> Guys, [...] >>>> >>>> Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try >>> to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood >>> as excluding valued members of this community. >>> >>> Even though in some situations "guys" is claimed to be a >>> gender-neutral word, I doubt that everyone thinks of themselves >>> as a "guy". And it will be polite to those people to not make them >>> choose between doing that or feeling excluded. >>> >>> >> I first heard some young women use the word "guys" for a group of themselves >> back around 1956. So it's not a neologism! > > Neither is singular "they". Nevertheless, it's rude to assume > that everyone worth having their feelings considered is male. > > "Folks", "People", "Fellow users", or in the examples above, > just starting with "I have a problem" and "Thanks" all work > pretty well. There are also fun neologisms like addressing > people by common characteristics -- e.g., calling the > inhabitants of debian-user "Debians". > > "Thanks, Debians." >
This should be on the wiki and on the guidelines for the Debian's mailing list. For non-native English speakers those subtlety are hard to comprehend! :) -- John Doe
