Re: What is a woman ?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 25, 2004, 14:58 |
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On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 05:28 PM, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> Thank you everybody !
> It is very strange to me that in English, the female
> seems to be a marked form of the general term for
> "man". There usually seems to be 2 different or
> symetrical words, like "Mann" und "Frau" in German,
> "homme" et "femme" in French, "hombre" y "mujer" in
> Spanish, "muj'china" and "jen'china" in Russian. Are
> there other natlangs using the English system ?
Hebrew uses "ish" and "isha", but they only *look* similar. They're
not actually derived from eachother, i think.
-Stephen (Steg)
"it's technical - different language creates different reality."
~ z
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