potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 天前Maybe I've just got the wrong history booklemmy.worldimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1608arrow-down12
arrow-up1606arrow-down1imageMaybe I've just got the wrong history booklemmy.worldpotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 天前message-square66fedilink
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·21 小时前“If war never changes, then men must change.” Ulysses, Fallout New Vegas
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 小时前(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-26 小时前In archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
minus-squareabsentbird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 小时前‘man’ and ‘men’ started as gender neutral terms, like a shortened form of ‘human’. The prefix for male humans was ‘wer’ and for female humans ‘wif’, which is where we get the words werewolf and wife.
“If war never changes, then men must change.”
people*
*sophonts
(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
In archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
‘man’ and ‘men’ started as gender neutral terms, like a shortened form of ‘human’. The prefix for male humans was ‘wer’ and for female humans ‘wif’, which is where we get the words werewolf and wife.