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From: billp@bronze.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: is prejudice in the language? NO!
Message-ID: <701@bronze.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 13:11:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 13:11:45 1983
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>>>(*) the "-man" suffix in, e.g., "fireman" derives from Old German "mann",
>>>which referred to "a person" rather than "a male human". I, therefore, have
>>>no compunction about using a phrase like "female fireman".
							Saumya Debray
							SUNY at Stony Brook

Hate to disappoint you, but "mann" in old or contemporary German means
"a male human" ("frau" means "a female human").  The word for "human"
is "mensch".

	Bill Pfeifer
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