Re: logic vocabulary

Quoting # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > > Maybe someone would have an other word to replace "stative" and
> "active" to
> > > fit with the "woman"/"man" opposition?
> >
> >Just like Sally said, it's sooooooo sexist! We're in the 21st century,
> so
> >unless your conlang is intended for a primitive culture, you should
> change
> >that eurocentric bias of "woman" being a derivative of "man". You,
> >prehistomacho!  ;-)
For the record, I said neither of that. I think you're quoting Sally and Remi.

> In fact I never thought about that thing of the fact that english "woman" is
> similar to "man" since I've learn english a few years ago...
>
> I'm not an english native speaker so that kind of "instinctive derivation of
> man and woman" probably not influence me.
My comment re crosslinguistic derivation of "woman" from "man" was etymological
only; I'm aware, of course, that considering women to be a sort of second-class
men has been only too popular. As we all (should) know, etymology doesn't
necessarily say much about connotations, nor vice versa.

                                                           Andreas