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![Amazon, Apple, and Facebook: did you know?
'Daisy' is derived from the Old English
word 'dægeseage', which literally means
'day's eye.' The daisy flower was given
this name because its long petals open
at dawn like a waking sun, and then
close their 'eyes' again at dusk.
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![God, Ignorant, and Love: HE
WO MAN
FE
MALE
HU
MAN
PER
SON
visual-poetry
»swofehuper« by richard tipping
[via]
mitosisisyourtosis
men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their
biological inferiority and general superfluousness
this is not just the "natural order this is the language of a patriarchal culture
rhysiare
Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me
ache something terrible. In my linguistics class in undergrad, we actually made
fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason
because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about
things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do
1. She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which
were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-
Germanic words meaning that/there. He as a word evolved from the
same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for "this/here'. Your idea of
patriarchal language" further falls apart when you compare this part of
English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the
words in German for he and she are "er" and "sie", completely unrelated
So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the
words "he" and "she" n English have similar form.
2. Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this
one. Man did not used to mean "male", man used to
mean humanity human being the old words in
Old English for male
adult person and female adult person were erman" and "wifman"
respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as
being the remnants of the base "wer
and the base "wif- Woman
evolved phonologically from the word "wifman" by natural processes
where the "f sound dropped and the
'i' became lax. Man dropped
its "wer stem for reasons mostly unknown but l can guarantee have
nothing to do with patriarchy" because phonological change has no
basis in that
3. Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two
completely different words. Male comes from Old French masle" which
meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well "femella"
which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she
where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having
any direct correlation in historical
linguistic processes to make them as
such
4. Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-
European "ghomon" which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly
being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope
here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for "man"
in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any
conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of
5. Person: This one offends me the most, simply because
love the fuck
out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at
this point. Person derives from persona" from Latin which meant the
same meaning, which ultimately derived from phersu" Etruscan
for mask' as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks
to give identity to the performers. So never once did "person" have any
meaning to do with son". So yes, this is the natural order or language.
Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within
speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do
fact checking, l will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in your lane.
Someone call the police, I've just seen some shots fired](https://pics.me.me/thumb_he-wo-man-fe-male-hu-man-per-son-visual-poetry-13267452.png)
