Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Monday 2005-01-03 at 13:32 -0500, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> yes, there certainly is a term "gang" , w/  good and bad connotations ..  but 
> generally it's a non sexist greeting to a group of people where one is, at 
> least relatively, a known personality. And is rather less annoying than to 
> have a bunch of pre teens call you one of their "peeps" 
> 
>   English evolves rather quickly. Each generation seems to put a spin on it in 
> several ways. Some words last, some make it into the dictionary and some just 
> disappear ... ' Hep Cat" hasn't been heard in general conversation lately,  
> for instance.

Interesting :-)

However... those changes are difficult to follow for those of us whose 
first language is not English - and in a list such as this, we are a lot.

	For example, I have no idea what "Hep Cat" might mean, but "hi
	gang" I think I understood, no offense taken.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson