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FTFY: The guy you go to lunch with during your on-site interview @Google is most likely the one who hasn't completed interview training yet.
by wp1 10y ago
FTFY: The guy you go to lunch with during your on-site interview @Google is most likely the one who hasn't completed interview training yet.
- wattt 10y agoFTFY: the PERSON you go to lunch with...
- jimmywanger 10y agoFTFY, guy and dude are pretty much asexual references for a person you don't know who you had a personal interaction with, at least in California. "Who did you have lunch with? Oh, some dude." Try not to language police here. You're not bringing anything to the discussion.
- iron0012 10y agoThat's not true in my experience, and I doubt it's true in yours. While "guys" is sometimes employed to refer to a mixed gender group of people, it would be very weird for "guy" or "dude" to be used to refer to a woman. Argue in good faith, please. And try not to police PC here. You're not bringing anything to the discussion.
- bobthecowboy 10y agoAs someone who has lived in Southern California 90% of their life, and Berkeley, CA the rest, I can absolutely say that it is true in my experience that Californians (and I obviously include myself in this set) will use 'guy' and 'dude' to refer to anything. Men, women, children, dogs, cats, cars, burritos. Last week I got up from the table to throw the rest of my burrito away and offered to take my wife's as well by saying "Dude, are you going to finish that guy?" I understand it isn't "correct", and the English are within their rights weep for their language if they like, but it is not weird at all in coastal California.
- amyjess 10y agoI remember using "guy" to refer to a network cable at one point. "Do I plug this guy or that guy into the switch?" This was in North Texas.
- nogbit 10y agoI refer to many servers, consoles, screens etc as him/her/he/she/guy, and I to call out any last remaining food on the kids plate in the same way as you. West coast as well.
- jimmywanger 10y agoYou bring up your experience, basically call me a liar about my experiences and accuse me of not adding anything to the discussion. Interesting. I grew up in California and what I said is a fact, as confirmed by other people. What are you bringing to the discussion exactly besides baseless accusations?
- iron0012 10y agoI've lived in California as well, and I maintain that you are full of shit.
- jimmywanger 10y agoI'm pretty sure I've lived here longer than you have, and you're not only showing your rudeness, but the lack of knowledge you have about the Bay Area and environs. Have fun slinking back to your hole.
- iron0012 10y agoNah, I never once heard anyone in Berkeley refer to a woman as a "dude" or a "guy".
- bitL 10y agoI got it from both living in California and Miami, where many people used it that way, girls as well. For me it was a bit strange at first, but got used to it. I guess it might be some local urban stuff leaking nationwide?
- xiaoma 10y agoDude implies some level of laid back cool personality. A dude is someone who skateboards, skis or does lots of pot, not a typical accountant, grammarian or middle manager.
- ajamesm 10y agoI agree with the lady who wrote this post.
- jimmywanger 10y agoWay to misinterpret what I said. I said that "dude" and "guy" were asexual, not "lady".
- ajamesm 10y agoI was using "lady" asexually.
- jimmywanger 10y agoJust like you can use the "n-word" non-racially? The conversation was about the colloquial usage of the word dude and guy. Nothing was said about lady.
- ajamesm 10y ago> "guy and dude are pretty much asexual references" and I'm using 'lady' asexually. Is this triggering you?
- jimmywanger 10y agoConsidering that lady is not generally accepted as an asexual term, I'm having a difficult time parsing your statement. Certain words mean certain things in certain contexts. If you want to start using "lady" as an asexual term, go for it. Be prepared for stares and weird looks when people don't know what you're talking about because it's not generally used that way, unlike 'dude and guy'. What's your point exactly?
- ajamesm 10y agoYou don't see my point? You're frustrated and defensive, and all I've done is address you by the wrong gender.
- bitL 10y agoYou guys should really fix English language. As a non-native speaker whose native language allows properly expressing gender anytime, I find this funny, being downvoted for what is a structural problem of your language :-D
- int_19h 10y agoThing is, most languages that do that don't just allow properly expressing gender, they require it. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
- Grishnakh 10y agoDoes your language allow referring to a person while leaving their gender unspecified? If not, your language is deficient. All the mainstream European languages I've seen (Germanic and Romance) don't seem to have this capability at all, and it's a big deficiency. Formal English doesn't have it either, but colloquially we've evolved it, using "they" (which of course is bad because it's supposed to be used for referring to people in the plural sense, not singular). So don't complain about a language having structural problems if yours isn't any better.
- bitL 10y agoIt allows both ungendered and gendered approaches. It's really up to you to choose. So in fact my language is better in this regard, worse in others. Like any language. I would prefer mentalese over Vangelis' direct to be honest ;-)
- hindsightbias 10y agoRegardless of what weird world they live in, nobody refers to a singular woman as a guy or dude in the mainstream. "guys" became gender neutral sometime in the 70's, Rita Moreno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg