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Bill,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff><FONT size=3>s<SPAN class=562405113-23082005>g. Mann
(man)
pl. Männer (men) </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>s<SPAN class=562405113-23082005>g. Mensch
(person) pl. Menschen
(people)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
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class=562405113-23082005>As we have the beautiful gender-neutral word
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color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><SPAN class=562405113-23082005>we don't have that
problem/issue of inclusive language in German
which</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>f<SPAN class=562405113-23082005>or most non-anglophones is a
non-issue, "much ado about nothing."</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=3>A<SPAN class=562405113-23082005> man is a "Mann" and a woman is a
"Frau" in German. So noone has a </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><SPAN class=562405113-23082005>problem
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=3>w<SPAN class=562405113-23082005>ith the fact that "wo-man" is
derived from "man" (wif-man) which has</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>g<SPAN class=562405113-23082005>iven rise to strange
coinings like "womyn" (sg.) and "wimmin"
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color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><SPAN class=562405113-23082005>in order to avoid
the word "man."</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=562405113-23082005> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT><TT>If
I'm not mistaken, another "split" example in German is:<BR><BR>mann
"man" maennen "men"<BR>mann
"person" leute
"people"<BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of
Pennsylvania<BR><A
href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/">http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/</A>
billposer@alum.mit.edu<BR></TT>
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