Re: Origin of the word 'kivismi'

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> Hi!
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> Daniel44 <Daniel44@...> writes:
> > As for soika/soike, the ending 'soika' is common and though it literally
> > translates as man, no sexist offence should be taken from it.
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> Intension is not what counts.  In German `man' (impersonal pronoun,
> something like `one', oftern translated as `you') has no gender, but
> because it is derived from `Mann', it is assumed to be sexist by many
> women.  So is `Mensch' (human), because it comes from
> `Mann+<umlaut>+sch'.
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> Because it is unnecessary to do this in an auxlang, it should be
> avoided, I think.  E.g. have one form that's underspecified and two
> additional ones that specify male and female.
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> **Henrik
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Or you could just be completely gender neutral :P

Imperative

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