Comments - University Of Michigan Professor: ‘The English language is sexist’ - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T07:51:13Zhttps://12160.info/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2649739%3ABlogPost%3A1678199&xn_auth=noSo the university doesn't hir…tag:12160.info,2017-04-18:2649739:Comment:16784562017-04-18T15:54:32.851ZRagnarokhttps://12160.info/profile/OldDenmark
<p>So the university doesn't hire any educated people?</p>
<p>So the university doesn't hire any educated people?</p> English is a Germanic languag…tag:12160.info,2017-04-18:2649739:Comment:16783022017-04-18T14:51:22.459ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>English is a Germanic language, predominantly influenced by other Germanic / Nordic languages as well as Latin and French.</p>
<p>So she finds the term 'man' offensive - in Old English <strong><em><span class="foreign">man</span></em></strong> - was a gender neutral term for a "human being" - one had to add the noun, <strong><em>wif</em></strong>, representing a female person, to <span class="foreign">man</span>, to form a word that denoted a female person exclusively.</p>
<p>One minute…</p>
<p>English is a Germanic language, predominantly influenced by other Germanic / Nordic languages as well as Latin and French.</p>
<p>So she finds the term 'man' offensive - in Old English <strong><em><span class="foreign">man</span></em></strong> - was a gender neutral term for a "human being" - one had to add the noun, <strong><em>wif</em></strong>, representing a female person, to <span class="foreign">man</span>, to form a word that denoted a female person exclusively.</p>
<p>One minute these feminists demand equality, although the goalposts and rationality for these demands keeps changing - depending on whether they are celebrating their femininity that week or demanding total modification to the English language with gender neutral terms.</p>
<p>What about Latin / Romance based languages that use grammatical gender based nouns as the norm?</p>
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