Yes, English is second language for me and I mostly learned it via reading things on the Internet.
Excuse me for the boy/guy confusion, I did not have any particular intent behind the wording. It was an unconscious application of my native language’s tendency to refer to <18 year old males with the “boy” equivalent word. As I’m mostly a lurker I have much less writing than reading experience; currently I usually make dozens of spelling/formulation corrections on longer posts, but some weirdly used words or mistakes are guaranteed to remain in the text.
Yes, English is second language for me and I mostly learned it via reading things on the Internet.
Excuse me for the boy/guy confusion, I did not have any particular intent behind the wording. It was an unconscious application of my native language’s tendency to refer to <18 year old males with the “boy” equivalent word. As I’m mostly a lurker I have much less writing than reading experience; currently I usually make dozens of spelling/formulation corrections on longer posts, but some weirdly used words or mistakes are guaranteed to remain in the text.
The boy usage is correct in English as well; I just don’t like that usage, but I’m out of the mainstream.