potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agoMaybe I've just got the wrong history booklemmy.worldimagemessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down13
arrow-up1653arrow-down1imageMaybe I've just got the wrong history booklemmy.worldpotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square74linkfedilink
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days ago(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoIn archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
minus-squareabsentbird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days ago‘man’ and ‘men’ started as gender neutral terms, like a shortened form of ‘human’. The prefix for male humans was ‘wer’ and for female humans ‘wif’, which is where we get the words werewolf and wife.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoWait, so I’m a werman?
minus-squareabsentbird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYep, though I think usually people just used ‘man’; the ‘wer’ prefix was for when gender was important, like ‘husband’ or ‘father’. When the Normans invaded, the English language tilted more towards explicit gender. I blame the French.
(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
In archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
‘man’ and ‘men’ started as gender neutral terms, like a shortened form of ‘human’. The prefix for male humans was ‘wer’ and for female humans ‘wif’, which is where we get the words werewolf and wife.
Wait, so I’m a werman?
Yep, though I think usually people just used ‘man’; the ‘wer’ prefix was for when gender was important, like ‘husband’ or ‘father’.
When the Normans invaded, the English language tilted more towards explicit gender. I blame the French.