potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days agoMaybe 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 days agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 hours ago(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-26 hours agoIn archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
minus-squareabsentbird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours ago‘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.
(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.