Re: ,Language' in language name?

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> I meant in the generic sense "an English person". If I get you correctly,
> "Twelve Englishmen entered the room" can only mean that "Twelve English men
> (=male persons) entered the room" - I was under the impression it didn't
> necessarily show gender.
For me it definitely does, although there's evidence that that wasn't true
in the past, e.g. "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong" (although that
could merely have meant that the political opinions of French women were
at the time unimportant).

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