A mailman is a letter carrier.
Gun shooty man = warfighter
woman = wofighter?
Fooman = FooFighter
Streetman = Streetfighter
The lemmy version
Firefighter
Bastard
Propaganda delivery agent
Carnist jerk
Man was gender neutral in old English https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/522859/ddg#522870
Its a concept called generic masculine.
Policeman = Police officer Fireman = Fire officer Repairman = Repair officer Mailman = Mail officer Fisherman = Fisher officer
I’m just saying nobody ever write a song called “Fuck the Fisher Officer…”
Human = Hu Officer
Man = Officer
Woman = Wo Officer
Oman = O Officer
He-Man = He-Officer = They-Officer
Anchorman = Anchor Officer
Batman = Bat Officer
Boogeyman= Boogey Officer
German = Ger Officer
Henchman = Hench Officer
Fish officer maybe
Same with Fishfighter, sounds much closer to the truth, and I can’t stop imagining a person wrestling with a large tuna or catfish in a shallow water
I know this is a joke but I will be pendantic and say there is already a gender neutral word for fisherman, which is fishmonger.
Fisherman - Fishmonger Mailman - Mailmonger Policeman - Policemonger Fireman - Firemonger
I thought a fishmonger was someone who sells fish at market, not the person who catches them.
It’s sad, the few things one can monger.
War, fish, rumors, cheese, fear, and whores, not much else to be a mongerer-of :(
Hackerfighter
Excel be like
If somebody told me this was how German worked I would believe it so I wonder if the reverse is true
In frontend development, it’s pretty common to use German to stress test UIs, as it’s a commonly used language with a lot of long words. It reveals all sorts of UI issues - text that doesn’t wrap properly, buttons that are pushed off the screen, etc.
I don’t know German, but I do like the idea of using compound nouns rather than inventing new words.
It’s also common to test UIs with Arabic, to test handling of right-to-left languages. At work we have a “fake RTL” language that’s English but rendered RTL. It’s interesting because everything is flipped - for example, a left-hand sidebar is instead on the right side in RTL languages. Company logo is at top right instead of top left.
You will be happy to know I have confirmed your identity as a Non-Israeli.
Because I used Arabic as an example rather than Hebrew? Or because I’m unfamiliar with RTL languages?
In any case, it’s pretty easy to figure out that I’m Aussie :)
This does not work in German because fighter is gendered as male. We have Feuerwehrmann and Feuerwehrfrau. Correct gendering in German is (I say that as an older a male) a bit complicated and makes the sentences usually mich longer or sound weird.
There was a joke solution to this that I really liked: add a “y” to the end or all gendered words: Feuerwehry, Frisöry, Mitarbeity, Erziehery, Arzty etc.
Degendering ala Phettberg may have started as a humours way toward gender neutral language, but it evolved IMHO into a serious way next to *, :, Innen.
I wasn’t aware but I like it. Makes everything sound cute.
Garbageman = Garbagefighter
Lineman = Linefighter
Airman = Airfighter
Seaman = Seafighter
Axeman = Axefighter
Repairman = Repair fighter
Handyman = handyfighter
Woman -> Wofighter
Groomsman = Groomsfighter
Chairman = Chairfighter
Stewardess = Airline Passenger Fighter
There are no such thing as fellow passengers, only foe passengers.
Nah.
Airline Passenger Paladin.
They cast ‘banish’ and you’re out of the plane.
