Interesting. In German there is the old (biblical) word âMĂ€nninâ. Which is literally the female form of âMannâ (man). Maybe the original language the translation comes from has something similar.
Iâm guessing it was someone doing translations, getting confused, playing it safe, and accidentally recreating Old English.
This is either Chinese or Japanese on the sign. But Japanese derrived from Chinese so both langues have the same origin for a lot of words:
Male ç· is a compound word of Field and Strength.
Woman ć„ł is a pictogram of a woman with breasts kneeling. A bit easier to see in the non-modern symbol. And pretty blatant when you compare it to the modern symbol for mother æŻ which is taking the old symbol and adding two nipples.
So nothing in the original language for this translation error to make sense.
But English has roots for âfemanâ to technically make sense. In Old English there used to be âmanâ meaning âpersonâ and âwifâ meaning âfemaleâ. This turned in to âwifmanâ meaning woman. Recently âwifâ turned into âwifeâ and âwifmanâ turned in to âwomanâ.
In their language there are two distinct words for âwomanâ and âmanâ so when they got âmaleâ for ç· they went âok cool now on to ć„łâ, and got âfemaleâ. Now thatâs basically the same word⊠So they backed up and retranslated ç· to âmanâ⊠Then got âwomanâ for ć„ł.
Now pretty unsure they looked up âmanâ and got that it could just mean âpersonâ. Then they put âmaleâ âmanâ for male person. Then they got really confused and instead of âfemaleâ âmanâ for âfemale personâ they cut out the âmaleâ and put âfeâ âmanâ essentially re-inventing the word âwifmanâ.
And finally somewhere along the way they found out about prefixes which fe- kinda acts like so thatâs why thereâs a space in âmale manâ and no space in âfemanâ
meditate, idk? the crud I read always bubbles back up then & I can chew on it more & even get more out of it (c.f. rotating a cow in your mind) & eventually the thought of something fun to do takes over & then I donât need the garbage feeds anymore. Free dopamine!
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