How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:57AM (#18493778)

"Guys" is just as gender-specific as "lads".

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by alexchamberlain on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:52PM (#18496537)

The defence was it was a Britishism, where guys is gender neutral.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by scrollaway on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:04PM (#18496655)

I don't understand your post/replies. Do you have a problem with people using britishisms? The "defence" spelling is also a britishism, so I'm not sure where you're going with all that.

"Guys" is not any more gender neutral than "Lads" (they both are often used in a gender-neutral way, but they're etymologically male). "Folks" is what I personally use if I specifically want something gender-neutral, but "lads" is definitely appropriate if the author is speaking to men.

Which brings me back to "this is a lot of noise for nothing".

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:08PM (#18499087)

Literally the first definition of "guy" is "a man". "Guy" is only gender neutral when you're referring to a group of people.

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