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That alone is sufficient reason not to support this change, otherwise we will run out of words pretty soon.


“Soon.”

Really.


Really. I mentioned this downthread, but the headline undersells the extent of Twitter's change; they've also dropped the terms "dummy value" and "guys".


"guys" is literally literally defined in the dictionary[1] as:

> used to address a group of people of either sex: >Come on, you guys, let's go.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy




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