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Written by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-05 at 21:48

It has occurred to me that we have no genderless equivalent to the words "Dude" or "Man" and "Girl" or "Girlfriend" used as a form of prefatory address e.g. "Dude, seriously? and "Girlfriend, let me tell you." and sometimes used all alone with an implied vibe.

"Entity" would be inclusive, I guess. I hate it. So the right neutral/neuter/agender/inclusive term (the "they" analog) should be:

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Descendants

Written by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-05 at 21:55

And of course there are Sir, Madam, Brother, Sister, etc. In English, all I can think of are gendered. "My fellow Earthling" seems a tad pretentious.

I used "Girl" to my then-tween daughter ~20ya and she visibly cringed, insisted that "Dude" was all I was allowed, and that "Dude" was universal. So, that's one vote.

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Written by George Dinwiddie on 2025-01-05 at 22:22

@grumpybozo also...

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Written by Julie Webgirl on 2025-01-05 at 22:31

@gdinwiddie

@grumpybozo

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Written by George Dinwiddie on 2025-01-05 at 22:45

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In Baltimore, you could address them as "Hon."

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