Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ptsfa!rob From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <437@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 22:47:48 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfa.437 Posted: Sun Jan 20 22:47:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:14:13 EST References: <641@uwmacc.UUCP>, <980@utastro.UUCP> <5242@duke.UUCP>, <630@voder.UUCP> <497@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2460 net.women:4176 > more about German: > > the way they say "one" is "man". > > in German: man = Mann, > woman = frau > one = man > Something similar happened in French. In a few cases, the older nominative and accusative cases of the same noun in Old French gave rise to two separate nouns of Modern French. The nominative form of the word for 'man' gave rise to the Modern French word for 'one' (generic person): case Latin -> Old French -> Mod French Mod French meaning nom. homo -> om -> on one (the generic person) acc. hominem -> homme -> homme man -- Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell, San Francisco, California {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob