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Congratulations on Brooklyn's rule (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: I can't fucking read either.