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lemmyreader to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago

How often had I overlooked women's contributions ?

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How often had I overlooked women's contributions ?

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lemmyreader to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago
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One of the comments reads : Actually, we will probably never figure out, was it man or woman. but I thought this comment of the professor was an interesting eye opener. https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/112070436760917344

  • Demonen
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    62•1 year ago

    It occurs to me that the solution might be to start referring to men as “wermen” again, and revert “men” to it’s gender neutral roots. That also means we can have a bunch of other prefixes for other genders.

    Languages are fun.

    • @Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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      19•1 year ago

      That’s also where the “were” prefix in werewolf comes from.

      • @bob_lemon@feddit.de
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        10•1 year ago

        Does that mean female werewolves should be called wowolves? (Or even better, woowolves)

        • @Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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          10•1 year ago

          Wifwolves, unfortunately.

    • @TIMMAY@lemmy.world
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      12•1 year ago

      just lean all the way in and call us vermin

    • @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      12•1 year ago

      https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=551

      • @hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8•1 year ago

        Scholars seem to agree it stems from Proto-Indo-European, so Latin is not the source.

      • huf [he/him]
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        7•1 year ago

        lol what the fuck, yeah right, ancient germanic word “man” derives from latin… whoever drew this didnt bother to open up the dictionary once…

        • @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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          4•1 year ago

          ¯\(ツ)/¯

          I’m not an entomologist.

          • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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            5•1 year ago

          • @blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml
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            1•1 year ago

            “Entomology (from Ancient Greek entomon ‘insect’, and -logia ‘study’)[1] is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term insect was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use.”

            • huf [he/him]
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              7•1 year ago

              pff nah, entomologists are experts at entoming people. you know, like putting them in a tom underground. dead. like that cara loft lady.

              • @blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml
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                4•1 year ago

                i need to branch out with my sources

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