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Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, October 26, 2003, 4:39
At 18:01 25.10.2003, David Barrow wrote:

>I suggest that Males are referred to as Wepmen, and we adopt 'man' as the >gender-neutral term. > >OE also had 'wer' from which 'werewolf''. 'Wereman' ?
That would be 'man-man', so please no! _wer_ on its own would add a third homophone for those many to whom _where_ and _were_ are homophonous. What's wrong with _human_ as a noun, BTW? Buddhists use it on a regular basis, but if it is too modern for Bible translators they could IMHO use _people_ for _anthropoi_. (Well, I guess that strictly angels should count as 'people' too. To my Buddhist feelings some non-human beings, and certainly the Bodhisattvas and the (lower-case) gods, would.) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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