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Originally Posted by Seige
Or as my old French teacher says "I hate it when people refer to a group of people as guys. It bugs me when i'm with a bunch of ladies, and someone comes up and says hey guys!"
Funny how something as simple as "hey guys!" can get someone so worked up.
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Ah, French linguistics humor.
The irony here is that in the French langage, the third person plural pronouns are gendered. There is a feminine "they" for females, and a masculine "they" for males. When referring to a group of mixed gender, regardless of the relative number of females and males, the correct usage is the masculine "they".
So in French, a mixed gender group
is a group of guys.