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At 01:34 AM 12/11/98 -0500, Jeff Kell wrote:
>> restaurant. If I'm having a cold one with my buddies, and the one who is
>> buying or serving says "What'll you guys have to drink?", that is fine.
>> When I'm in a fine restaurant (minimum $50 per person plus drinks) and the
>> server comes up and says "What'll you guys have to drink?" to my wife and
>> me, I get ready to walk out.
>
>We southeastern Americans solved that problem ages ago, the proper form
>of the question is "What'll y'all have to drink?". No gender bias down
>here.
>The northeastern translation is "What'll youse guys have to drink" which
>remains, to this date, gender specific :-)
>
Having a southerner for an exwife, I'm very familiar with y'all. And
apologies for message not being clear. More than the gender issue (which
is a part of it), I'm bothered by the informality in a fancy restaurant.
If I'm actually dressing up and paying for top drawer food and atmosphere,
I expect the same from the waitstaff. Guess I didn't indicate that in the
example above that my "buddies" include folks of both genders (and, perhaps
more than both)
cheers
dan
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