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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

As I recently saw in a video about bible translations: Greek used (uses?) generic masculine forms for plurals. So a mixed group of stewarts and stewardesses would be called "these stewarts". If there's no context added, it's impossible to tell whether the group was actually all male or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Stewards he said, gently mansplaining.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well it's not like we use the words Wifman and Werman anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe you don't.

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