Five people have been rescued after spending 36 hours atop a plane in an alligator-infested swamp in the Amazon after it was forced to make an emergency landing, local authorities said.
The small plane was found by local fishermen in Bolivia’s Amazonas region on Friday having been missing for 48 hours.
The survivors - three women, a child and the 29-year-old pilot - were rescued in “excellent condition”, Wilson Avila, director of the Beni Department’s emergency operations centre, said.
A search and rescue mission was launched on Thursday after the plane disappeared from the radar of the Beni Department in central Bolivia.
To me, “guys” has been a gender-neutral term for a while now. At least that’s how it’s used here in my little bubble in Europe.
Same in my area of Canada.
It’s the same in the US as well.
Its also the same in basically every Spanish speaking country, considering that you would refer to a mixed group of people by a masculine word. Only a group of just women would get a feminine word, and only if there was zero ambiguity
There is a huge swath of the US where we dont say y’all, we dont say you all, we dont say youse, yinz, or none of that. We just say “you guys” to refer to any group of people, in the same place anyone would use any of those other words or phrases.
Its annoying people get bent out of shape about it as if its some artifact of the patriarchy when its literally just a non-country way of saying “y’all”. It undermines actual legitimate issues when people complain about non-issues like that
Just wondering if either of you asked the girls/women how they feel about it.
Yes. Non issue here.
However, I prefer to use “folks”. Am old and come from a time when it wasn’t gender neutral.
I’m in my mid 60’s. I put up with it but I don’t like it much.
Indeed. “Guys” here (US) is just the millennial version of “Folx”