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Male and Female Guys
December 19, 2009 9:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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A woman from Indianapolis is trying to convince her grandmother that it's okay for restaurant servers to refer to both male and female customers as you guys. Grandma says it's sexist. Our caller maintains it's fine, drawing an analogy with Spanish, where the masculine pronoun ellos encompasses both sexes. This is part of a complete episode.
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