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That is probably the best argument for it, but what alternative is there for a audience-correct gender neutral guys? Do we really have to borrow yeall?


What's wrong with "people"?

As in, "you people"?

(Grammatically correct, non-colloquial, non-regional, and gender neutral.)


The phrase you people is generally understood to have racial tones, e.g. http://mashable.com/2012/07/19/ann-romney-you-people/ or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/why-you-may-be-a....


Planet Earth calling: if that's so, it's a specifically regional -- i.e. American -- thing. (I'm in Scotland, where it definitely doesn't.)


Hey dude can you help me?

vs

Hey person can you help me?

Being colloquail is a feature, not a bug.




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