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<div dir="auto">Matthew Woehlke wrote:
<div dir="auto">> <span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">On 21/10/2020 00.57, Robert Delmenico wrote: </span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">> </span><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">> The word 'Man' in the Old English sense 'mann' had the primary meaning of "adult male human" </span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">> </span><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">Citation needed</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">My degree is in Old English (and the other early medieval languages of the British Isles) and I can assure you that the sentence quoted is, frankly, </span><span style="background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">beallucas. </span><span style="color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">"Man"/"mann" in OE is usually gender-neutral. Go look at a parallel text of Beowulf if you don't believe me.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">Richard</span></div>
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