[ExI] Rule of Law or of Men?

[natasha at natasha.cc]

   It seems that the wifey-poo was a revamping of the word:

   "The Old English WIFMAN meant "female human" (WERMAN meant "male  
human". MAN or MANN had a gender neutral meaning of "human",  
corresponding to Modern English "one" or "someone". However in around  
1000AD "man" started to be used more to refer to "male human", and in  
the late 1200s began to inevitably displace and eradicate the original  
word "werman").[1][1] The medial labial consonants coalesced to create  
the modern form "woman"; the initial element, which meant "female,"  
underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife")."

   Really weird explanataion ...

   Natasha

   Quoting Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>:

> 'Woman' means 'wife-person', though, so maybe the classic 'mann' has a
> revival in its future.
> On Feb 22, 2012 4:34 PM, <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>
>> Then use "human" or "men and women".
>>
>> Quoting The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>:
>>
>> > Simple enough question although I mean 'men' to be gender neutral. I
>> > can think of good arguments for both. But being locked in des Cartes
>> > Prison, I want to hear other people's arguments.
>> >
>> >
>> > Stuart LaForge
>> >
>> >
>> > "The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have
>> > its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.
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