Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 19:29:03 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: 2 pl



"You guys" as a 2d person plural sex-unmarked pronoun is evidently strong

enough to drive implicatures. This afternoon my daughter, age 10, was trying

to convince her friend, also female, that a drawing had been given to her in

particular and not to the two of them jointly. Her trump argument was that

the donor had said in handing it to my daughter, "Here, this is for you" and

not "This is for you guys". Connecticut born and bred.



Larry