@kwot to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 year agoI wonder if there's a parallel universe where children are called "childs" and adults are called "adultren"message-square15arrow-up1247arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1227arrow-down1message-squareI wonder if there's a parallel universe where children are called "childs" and adults are called "adultren"@kwot to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square15file-text
minus-square@queermunistlinkEnglish28•edit-21 year agoThere’s a theory that, at one time, “man” was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males “weremen” and obviously women “women” That probably isn’t true, but it’s fun to think about a world where that was reversed. EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.
minus-squareErikatharsislinkfedilink4•1 year ago penis-person I can’t read that without thinking of “Democracy Manifest”
minus-squareクーイフlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoAccording to this, whether or not it is real: And we also see wæpman being specifically to refer to a man in relation to penetrative sex.
There’s a theory that, at one time, “man” was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males “weremen” and obviously women “women”
That probably isn’t true, but it’s fun to think about a world where that was reversed.
EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.
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I can’t read that without thinking of “Democracy Manifest”
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According to this, whether or not it is real: