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Originally Posted by haertig
Does this not open the thread up to a discussion regarding the use of the word "guys" then? I do not see your words above in any way limiting the discussion to the word "men". Quite the opposite actually.
So this thread is about the usage of "guys" OR the usage of "men". ANd that is the way I interpreted it. My use of the word "redirect" was in error, your intention all along was to talk about both words. I'm fine with that. That's exactly how I perceived it. I just stated my sentence to @Sirtel incorrectly.
I should not have said "... the thread got redirected to the word 'guys'". I should have said, "This thread was always about the word 'guys' (and 'men' too)". Sorry. My error.
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You've got it mostly correct, but I'm going to have one more go at making clear the precise topic of this thread, which is
quite narrow (but do not mean to exclude related discussion):
Is there a non-English word that matches the informal meaning of "guys", as defined in post #1 that gets translated to English as "men"
rather than "guys"? So it is not about "men" OR "guys" but BOTH "guys" AND "men" in a
specific way.
It turns out that "caras" in Brazilian Portuguese fits. Although I am curious where there are any others, I am too drained and have neglected too many other things to put any effort into finding out.