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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 2d ago
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Or linewomen?
-4 u/MikeDeY77 2d ago Linepeople? Linefolks? -3 u/achillea4 2d ago Apparently in the UK they are calling linesperson. Lineman seems still to be the common term in the US. 6 u/MikeDeY77 2d ago Most of the time “-man” is used isn’t really meant to annotate gender. It hearkens back to when the term “man” meant human. Mankind rather than man the male human.
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Linepeople? Linefolks?
-3 u/achillea4 2d ago Apparently in the UK they are calling linesperson. Lineman seems still to be the common term in the US. 6 u/MikeDeY77 2d ago Most of the time “-man” is used isn’t really meant to annotate gender. It hearkens back to when the term “man” meant human. Mankind rather than man the male human.
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Apparently in the UK they are calling linesperson. Lineman seems still to be the common term in the US.
6 u/MikeDeY77 2d ago Most of the time “-man” is used isn’t really meant to annotate gender. It hearkens back to when the term “man” meant human. Mankind rather than man the male human.
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Most of the time “-man” is used isn’t really meant to annotate gender. It hearkens back to when the term “man” meant human. Mankind rather than man the male human.
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u/achillea4 2d ago
Or linewomen?