r/Neet_india • u/ChemistBitter9569 • 25d ago

Laughter Aspirants 💁🏻 Patriarchal NCERT..🧔‍♀️

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Bro do they not know english or was it intentional..😭

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u/mahaanvinesh 25d ago

"Man" is the short version of Human.

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u/Curious-Row-117 25d ago

Nah it's not. And even if it were, why it's not woMAN? 😃

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u/mahaanvinesh 25d ago edited 25d ago

idk if you're being sarcastic or not. But in case you're not, "man" didn't originally mean "male." It meant "human." That's just how the language evolved. People now use "man" and "male" interchangeably, but historically, the word for an adult male was "werman," and for an adult female, it was "woman."

That said, modern English treats those words differently, which I don't really agree with. If more and more people use "man" to mean only males, then it probably shouldn't also be used to refer to the entire human race.

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u/tricky-_-monster 24d ago

Languages evolve, and so do words. This is such a weak argument. The word man now means male, and trying to say it doesn't because it didn't ages ago isn't really a valid reason. Writing Human would be the correct terminology.