It's an ancient racket: Invent a new sin ('you guys') that the mark is already guilty of (because it's a common and perfectly innocuous expression), sell it with some pseudoplausible mumbo-jumbo ("some people say it's...")
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Then you triumphantly sell the cure -- buy this prayer book/magazine article, say the prescribed incantation faithfully, and you will be forgiven. Maybe. This time. It's all more or less on the moral level of poisoning wells and then selling water, but it's a living.
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More like new Wesley Crusher
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There's nothing in this article I haven't thought repeatedly myself over the past 20 or 30 years. I think the phrase I used as a child in California was "Is everybody ready?" Now, in N.C., I'd say "Are y'all ready?"
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I particularly dislike "you guys" applied to a group of mixed gender. I also think the words "folks" and "folk" are underused.
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I use "people".
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We lost second person plural b/c of Quakers. You used second person plural to address not multiple people, but a person with higher social status. Quakers hated this, went to jail for it, that's why it disappeared in the Northern Colonies.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.