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Re: logic vocabulary

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Thursday, December 23, 2004, 17:37
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! ;-)
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.

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>