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So, I've been staring at your avatar for a solid two minutes, and I've got to ask...wtf is it?Originally Posted by Willeonge
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2012-01-16, 04:55 AM #41Mechagnome
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2012-01-16, 05:03 AM #42Brewmaster
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I'm going to take the Willeonge Challenge. Originally Posted by Jhaalu
Horses head?Yes yes, I know, the sky just bonked you on the head, casuals are taking over the government, and some baddie just got a raid drop... I think you'll live. Originally Posted by xxAkirhaxx
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2012-01-16, 05:07 AM #43I am Murloc!
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I refer to groups of people as "guys." In that context, there's really no gender specificity. It's just a colloquialism. Anyone who gets uptight about it is just looking for a reason to complain, IMO.
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2012-01-16, 05:07 AM #44Pandaren Monk
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You got that right! Originally Posted by Erik765
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2012-01-16, 05:08 AM #45Mechagnome
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Lol, i was thinking a guy with an extremely long chin looking upwards Originally Posted by Dariela
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2012-01-16, 05:10 AM #46Pandaren Monk
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Originally Posted by Jhaalu
"Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding."
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
- King Stannis Baratheon
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2012-01-16, 05:11 AM #47The Patient
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Just say gals instead of guys ... problem solved
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2012-01-16, 05:15 AM #48The Patient
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what i find facinating is that there are dudes on this site that talk to girls IRL.
but back to seriousness...
I believe that the word "dude" or "guys" isn't correct when talking to women.
there should be a word for this... like "people" but thats to long and its clumsy and you cant say "human" or "homo-sapiens" would be like ure talking to another race...
dude or guys is short n nice... we should change the dictonarys!
btw... i found this
dude (dd, dyd)
n.
1. Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.
2. Informal A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.
3. Slang
a. A man; a fellow.
b. dudes Persons of either sex.
tr.v. dud·ed, dud·ing, dudes
Slang To dress elaborately or flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show.
interj. Slang
Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations.
[Origin unknown.]
Our Living Language Cowboys and the Wild West are indelibly set in the minds of many as typical of Americaan association borne out by several common Modern English words that originated in the speech of the 19th-century western United States. One is dude, now perhaps most familiar as a slang term with a wide range of uses (including use as an all-purpose interjection for expressing approval: "Dude!"). Originally it was applied to fancy-dressed city folk who went out west on vacation. In this usage it first appears in the 1870s. The origin of the word is not known, but a number of other cowboy terms were borrowed by early settlers from American Spanish. These include buckaroo, corral, lasso, mustang, ranch, rodeo, and stampede. Buckaroo, interestingly, is an example of a word borrowed twice: it is an Americanized form of Spanish vaquero, which also made it into English as vaquero, a cowboy.
however the source wasn't ver reliant but it looks legitLast edited by Supermantra; 2012-01-16 at 05:23 AM.
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2012-01-16, 05:32 AM #49Scarab Lord
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All girls = I refer to them as ladies
All guys = Refer to them as guy
Mixed crowed = Refer to them as guys
Of course In large crowed many of the terms I use to point people out are offensive to the Pc crowed
Aka the Black guy/girl
Aka The Mexican guy/girl
Aka the blonde with the big tits and hot ass
Aka the fairy princess (used to point out the flamboyantly gay)
None of which are said to be offensive but more so to make them more quickly identifiable in large crowds.
So yes I suppose if I was pointing out a women in a crowd I Would use her gender to do so.
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2012-01-16, 05:44 AM #50Immortal
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Not really. I never think into it, so it never bothers me. I even call my own female friends dudes, so why not?
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2012-01-16, 05:46 AM #51Stood in the Fire
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In any foreign language I've heard, you use the masculine conjugation for any group of people of mixed gender.
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2012-01-16, 05:58 AM #52The Lightbringer
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I'm a woman and I refer to a group of people as "you guys". I also say "dude" a lot with no concern for the sex of the person I'm speaking to. Some people are too easily offended.
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2012-01-16, 06:05 AM #53High Overlord
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Ya'll bitches make some bomb ass food, ya dig?
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2012-01-16, 06:08 AM #54Stood in the Fire
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It's regional. I've lived in a few different parts of the US and in some places using "guys" is no problem and in others people don't like it.
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2012-01-16, 06:10 AM #55The Patient
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*shrug* I'm a girl, and I regularly refer to both my female and male friends as 'dudes' or 'guys'. No one has gotten upset at me yet.
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