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- From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.130701.3358@pollux.lu.se>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 13:07:01 GMT
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- In article <C07wIH.HHz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan1.003451.27818@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
- >>Unfortunately for Time, the play's director may not have been being
- >>PC, just literal. The title of Brecht's play in the original is
- >>"Der gute Mensch von Sezuan". Now, boys and girls, get out your
- >>German dictionaries and tell me what "Mensch" means....
- >
- >Ahh, but you should also notice 'Der gute Mensch', clearly masculine.
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- Sorry, but "der Mensch" means simply "the human" or "the person",
- regardless of that person's sex.
-
- You may of course say that the German language is sexist, since it
- assigns the masculine gender to _all_ human beings by default, as it
- were.
-
- On the other hand, the Swedish word for 'human', 'M"anniska', always
- takes the feminine pronoun.
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