• Gork@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    Time for Womanhattan

    But that still has the word man in it

    Wopersonhattan

    But that has the gender term son in it

    Woperchildhattan

    • Executive Chimp
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      10 hours ago

      Fun fact, woman and man come from different roots. So while it might have the letters of man in it, it doesn’t have man exactly.

      • Kazumara
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        8 hours ago

        That doesn’t sound right…

        From what I remember “woman” comes from “wifman”, which is a compound of “wif” and “man”, and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons, and “wer” and “wif” were male and female persons respectively.

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          8 hours ago

          Fun fact: my memory is shitty. Looks like you’re right except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

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            7 hours ago

            except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

            But I included that, didn’t I?

            and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons

            Or do you mean rather than male and female, I should have said persons regardless of gender? I guess that makes more sense.