Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 26, 2003, 4:39 |
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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.
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>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^)
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