• @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        I haven’t seen it used much in a non-gendered way, so I guess that’s why it has a clear masculine ring in my head

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          It is very common to hear girls use the term guys, and for people to address a mixed party as “guys”

      • Lem Jukes
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        51 year ago

        Just like ‘mankind’ right? (/s)

        Sure, language is changing and guys has been veering neutral since the 70s. But claiming the word is outright “non-gendered” is incorrect imo.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            I agree that “guys” is not a gendered term but I don’t like your argument.

            Definitions of words can be very different to how people use them, and we shouldn’t constrain the use of words to their definitions.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              I disagree that we shouldn’t constrain the use of words to their definitions. It’s what helps make the meaning of sentences the most clear for everyone. If people had actually done that then the definition of “literally” wouldn’t include “figuratively” and a lot of misunderstandings could be avoided.

              Otherwise we could end up with people saying that when they wrote “all white people deserve to die” what they actually meant was that they deserve to live, since that’s how they use the word “die”. It’s nonsensical to me.

        • @Senshi
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          Kind of a bad example, because mankind very clearly stems from ‘humankind’. And people are lazy and prefer using short words. The unfairness is rather that women got stuck with the words requiring more characters. But that is a phenomenon of the English language and not present in others.

          However, in most languages the words for man/male are closer to human(kind) than female/woman, which very clearly shows the historic patriarchal influence, coming back around to your point after all.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Interestingly enough, in old English you had “werman” and “wifman” for man and woman respectively, in which case referring to all with “mankind” makes perfect sense. So the originator for mankind seems more likely to be from that than the explanation that it’s a shortening of “humankind” to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Not technically. Practically. In real world. As slang.

        Cause technically and by definition, It’s still very much gendered.

      • @Mango
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        11 year ago

        What’s gals then?

    • @Mango
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      51 year ago

      Oh good, so it’s just the OP who doesn’t have their shit straight.

  • @t_berium
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    431 year ago

    Holy Chainsword, blessed be thy Machine Spirit

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          According to the Minka Lesk omnibus after the Cadia destruction they did broke for a time before gathering their remains and losing half of their remaining numbers in incredibly suicidal but spectacular attack just to show the rest of Guard they didn’t lost the edge.

  • Gormadt
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    If I pull this out of a stump do I get to be king?

    It’s a cool shelf piece but in terms of practicality I’m to attached to my extremities to dare to turn it on

    • @Possible_EmuWrangler
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      181 year ago

      Listen, strange women lyin’ near trees distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. That said, if you do pull it from a stump I’m not going to try and take it from you.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Aesthetically? Hell yeah. Functionally? I am not taking a sword that can run out of juice to the battlefield.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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      241 year ago

      This is the kind of weapon you bring to a battle expected to be so bloody you die before it does

    • KptnAutismus
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      91 year ago

      a back-mounted generator is still an option, although it just prolongs the inevitable.

  • @baatliwala
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    221 year ago

    Please tell me the Chainsword is a weapon in some game?

  • Flying Squid
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    191 year ago

    People are supposed to see Kite Man and think “hell yeah.”