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- From: bickis@skmath3.usask.ca ("M. Bickis")
- Subject: Re: Motivations for Gender-Neutral Terminology
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:04:39 GMT
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- In article <BzBnBv.3yv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> bgarfink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (beth diane garfinkel) writes:
-
- >Often, this is actually a matter of translation. For example, in
- >German, there is a word Mensch; when German writings including this word
- >are translated into English, Mensch is almost always rendered as "man."
- >It actually [please correct me if I'm wrong] means "human being," and I
- >believe that it's neuter, "das Mensch," in which case it would imply
- >nothing about gender at all.
-
- It's der Mensch, making it a masculine noun, but you're right that it
- does not imply anything about the *sex* of the person designated. The
- german words for 'girl', 'Frauelein' and 'Maedchen', however, are both
- neuter.
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