• Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOP
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      The Panama papers consisted of 11 millions documents, 214 000 offshore companies, 14.000 customers… And now 27 are charged, and that’s it.

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          The “guy” in question is called Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia…

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            Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia…

            I am a girl and I use “guy” in a gender neutral way.

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              Which is 100% how I was using it. Couldn’t remember anything about the person other than they were clearly killed by somebody involved in this.

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              I am a girl and I use “guy” in a gender neutral way.

              Vs. “person”?

              The word “guy” (vs “gal”, etc.) is literally signaling gender.

              Not that I think it’s worth much debate/argument, but still. When I read the OC I just substituted the word ‘guy’ for ‘person’ in my head, because I understood the meaning of the whole sentence being said.

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                Language is chabgeable. I always say “guys” for mixed groups. Seems like some more people agree or don’t care.

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                  Seems like some more people agree or don’t care.

                  I don’t mostly, I just wanted to make conversation. As I mentioned earlier, I did the mental gymnastics and substituted “person” for “guy” in my head when reading.

                  Language is chabgeable.

                  It definately evolves, over time. I speak English but literally can’t understand Old English (as an example).

                  My language doesn’t segregate between an Uncle (for example) on my Father’s side, vs. on my Mother’s side, while some other languages do exactly that, they have two different words depending on which Uncle you’re talking about.

                  Heck, we even use the same vowels but pronounce them differently in different cultures. English pronouces the vowel “I” as “eye”, while (for example) with Persian/Farsi they pronounce the vowel “I” as if its an “E”. Americans say “Eye-ran” for Iran, where Persians say “Eee-ron” for Iran.

                  Its important for Humanity to be able to speak to each other, to resolve issues and build a better social World habitat. Kind of hard when people manipulate the languages away from what they are, but then again that Humanity, never 100% perfect.

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                    5 months ago

                    Thanks for writing this long post but I’m not really going to read it. Not interested in a side trackwd conversation about a non-issue.

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                    “Actress” also still exists, but many women in that business prefer “actor” and it is becoming a default.

                    The existence of a word doesn’t change the fact that language is fluid.