@Mick I don't agree with you there.

Surely posts like this must make us wonder why single-word-requests are still a thing.

Hmm, I need a timestamp...

@Robusto Actually it does not, at least for me. It seems like a word like that might be very useful in biographical contexts, as people often describe events that changed the course of their entire life. Since you made your comment, Burhan Khalid seems to have suggested influenced and I do think the word influential is probably very close. I can not be sure if a more specific word exists. Do not get me wrong, S.W.Rs. are problematic but I doubt this question exemplifies them.

Now there are some rather strange answers, but any question on the website can have those, especially when people have the audacity to cite Oxford …

@tchrist Actually, to be fair, I don't think the question disparages religious people as being uneducated, so much as it does that for atheists who claim to have a god. I mean really, how can somebody have something that does not exist? =P

Guys is there anyone from French?

France *

@Shafizadeh "Guys, is there anyone here from France".

Yes, @caub is. also... hm I thought there was someone else, but maybe that was @caub by a different name

And addressing strangers as guys borders on inappropriacy.

and sexism

guys is actually often used for people of all sexes though.

thefreedictionary.com/guys

@Færd @caub @terdon I feel like there must be an ELU question about this. This one? or this one?

@Færd I think there is a certain level of familiarity among people here in chat that it isn't inappropriate.

You know what really grinds my gears?

when people misspell 'Whoa'.

it's annoying because there's the way people used to spell it all the time, but now people only seem to spell it as 'woah'

and it's not a formal word so there's no real appeal to authority for it.

so complaining about it is sort of pointless.

Google Ngrams/Books doesn't have a good corpus up to recently.

DAMN YOU GOOGLE BOOKS!

@Mitch I'm glad you let off some steam.

@Mitch Well, those aren't explicitly about where to appropriately use these terms of intimacy/familiarity. I think tchrist had something about this, strict as he might sound to some tastes.

Woah. You guys are too much.

;)

Was there a recent meta about not answering in comments?

> Finally, it is you who pushes up to Ramon

> It is me who brings her back.

> He will storm the gates of hell after this, if it 's you who ask it.

> it is you who look like me.

(COCA)

Looks like both third person and first/second person are possible after it is me/you who.

@snailplane It would sound less odd if the register matched in both halves: "It is I who bring her back".

I'd read the last two as plural you. Otherwise it just feels wrong.

@Mitch Yeah, either will do. In any case, guys is very often used as a gender neutral term.

@Færd Guys is neither intimate nor particularly familiar. I mean, it is perfectly reasonable to use it in the sort of register we have here.

I don't find it strange, anyway.