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If person/people wasn't a two syllable word would we use that instead? Maybe "peeps" needs to be adopted.
by rdlecler1 12y ago
If person/people wasn't a two syllable word would we use that instead? Maybe "peeps" needs to be adopted.
- grayclhn 12y ago"All"
- ghaff 12y agoThey are used a bit. "IT people just don't get the problem" sounds fine to my ear and I see that kind of construction. (Which has a slightly different nuance from IT doesn't get it.) It's a bit clinical and impersonal but something like that is what I'd probably use in an official marketing doc. Peeps, on the other hand, is very slangy and at least today carries the implications of acquaintances, as least as I've seen it used. As someone else mentioned, folks isn't a bad clearly general-neutral, casual term. And I use it from time to time in more casual writing.