[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Artificial
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemed.net
Wed Oct 21 15:09:29 UTC 2020
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 21/10/2020 00.57, Robert Delmenico wrote:
> > The word 'Man' in the Old English sense 'mann' had the primary meaning of "adult male human"
> Citation needed
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, beallucas. "Man"/"mann" in OE is usually gender-neutral. Go look at a parallel text of Beowulf if you don't believe me.
Richard
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