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originally posted by: Painterz
Have none of you ever considered the possibility that you're being XXXipulated with these stories?
They have very little grounding in reality. Yet they provoke this massive emotional response from you all.
Never stopped to ask why Fox and Breitbart are deliberately pushing your emotional buttons in this way?
originally posted by: Lagomorphe
Men should be called wǣpmann then according to "Today I found out" and Women wīfmann :
Today I found out that the word ‘man’ was originally gender neutral, meaning more or less the same as the modern day word “person”. It wasn’t until about a thousand years ago that the word “man” started to refer to a male and it wasn’t until the late 20th century that it was almost exclusively used to refer to males.
Before “man” meant a male, the word “wer” or “wǣpmann” was commonly used to refer to “male human”. This word almost completely died out around the 1300s, but survives somewhat in words like “werewolf”, which literally means “man wolf”.
This is an interesting snippet :
Interestingly, the word ‘men’, meaning “to think” or “to have a cognitive mind”, was also gender neutral and connected to “man”, which meant “the thinker”. So we can see from that how “man” originally referred to all humans.
Linkywink here for the full story and other references : www.todayifoundout.com...man-was-originally-gender-neutral/
Happy reading
Warmest respects
Lags
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
OMFG - Hey DB, come and have a look what Lagomorphe's just encoded in his post.
This is as plain as day - it's getting out of hand.
Enough is enough man, I mean bro.
originally posted by: Lagomorphe
Men should be called wǣpmann then according to "Today I found out" and Women wīfmann :
Today I found out that the word ‘man’ was originally gender neutral, meaning more or less the same as the modern day word “person”. It wasn’t until about a thousand years ago that the word “man” started to refer to a male and it wasn’t until the late 20th century that it was almost exclusively used to refer to males.
Before “man” meant a male, the word “wer” or “wǣpmann” was commonly used to refer to “male human”. This word almost completely died out around the 1300s, but survives somewhat in words like “werewolf”, which literally means “man wolf”.
This is an interesting snippet :
Interestingly, the word ‘men’, meaning “to think” or “to have a cognitive mind”, was also gender neutral and connected to “man”, which meant “the thinker”. So we can see from that how “man” originally referred to all humans.
Linkywink here for the full story and other references : www.todayifoundout.com...man-was-originally-gender-neutral/
Happy reading
Warmest respects
Lags