Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #457 - 14 msgs

2001-05-14 Thread Magni Onsoien
A Kozic: > I just finished reading Egalia's Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg > (ISBN:0-93118-8342). It is a "White Man's Burden" style role reversal, > covering the "masculinist movement" in a matriarchal society. They use > "wim"/"wom", "menwim"/"menwom", and "huwom" (Though "wom" is a perfectly > a

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #457 - 14 msgs

2001-05-14 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/14/01 10:44 AM , A Kozic wrote: >I just finished reading Egalia's Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg >(ISBN:0-93118-8342). It is a "White Man's Burden" style role reversal, >covering the "masculinist movement" in a matriarchal society. They use >"wim"/"wom", "menwim"/"menwom", and "huwom" (Though

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #457 - 14 msgs

2001-05-14 Thread A Kozic
Kai MacTane wrote: > In Old High German, there were two major types of "men": "wo-men" and > "wer-men". "Wo-men" were female and "wer-men" male. The "wer" in > "wer-man" is cognate with the Latin "vir", which also means "man" (in > our current sense of "adult male human"). I just finished readin