[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[Fritz Goerling]

  Not quite, Bill,

  sg. Mann (man)               pl. Manner (men)
  sg. Mensch (person)      pl. Menschen (people)
  As we have the beautiful gender-neutral word "Mensch",
  we don't have that problem/issue of inclusive language in German which
  for most non-anglophones is a non-issue, "much ado about nothing."
  A  man is a "Mann" and a woman is a "Frau" in German. So noone has a
  problem with the fact that "wo-man" is derived from "man" (wif-man) which
has
  given rise  to strange coinings like "womyn" (sg.) and "wimmin" (pl.)
  in order to avoid the word "man."

  Fritz Goerling




  If I'm not mistaken, another "split" example in German is:

  mann "man"      maennen "men"
  mann "person"      leute      "people"



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