From: stephenoles@xxxxxxxxx (Sweevil)
English has no "neuter" case. Now it's almost exclusively women who call
each other "guys". You rarely hear a man speak that way.
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You still hear gay men say "okay, girls" to other men. At least at dance
rehearsals.
Re: Paid Gig Tomorrow Night ... guitar for rehearsals and I'm comfortable with it now... ... up (besides which, even if I do, I figure half the audience might not speak...English anyway). ... So I'm going to try to have fun instead of allowing the ... (rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic)
Re: S4E02 Up Doctor Who ... idea which now explains why all the aliens since 1963 spoke English.... The TARDIS translated Latin into what Donna would be familiar with; ... Sure...they all speak English..but they speak it as we ... tv drama to feature regional accents.... (rec.arts.drwho)
Re: Leodhasach & Hearasch - Gaelic help please ... course our own traditional language is even more neglected than Gaelic is. ... who speak English soon get the gist of it. ... is someone who truly appreciates Scottish culture in that you won't find ... (soc.culture.scottish)
Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who cant speak English ... Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English.... "I cannot imagine that the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act intended to say that it's discrimination for a shoe shop owner to say to his or her employee, 'I want you to be able to speak America's common language on the job,' " he told the Senate last Thursday. ... In March the EEOC sued the Salvation Army because its thrift store in Framingham, Mass., required its employees to speak English on the job. ... (soc.retirement)
Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who cant speak English ... Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English.... "I cannot imagine that the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act intended to say that it's discrimination for a shoe shop owner to say to his or her employee, 'I want you to be able to speak America's common language on the job,' " he told the Senate last Thursday. ... In March the EEOC sued the Salvation Army because its thrift store in Framingham, Mass., required its employees to speak English on the job. ... (soc.senior.issues)
