Why is it all the collective terms that people claim are gender neutral (guys, lads etc...) Are all of male origin. Noone ever claims ladies, or girls, or lasses, to be gender neutral?
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Don't languages tend to turn gender-neutral terms into male terms? Prime example: "man".
@antonia seems it's had some migration. Surely also that's mann/menn tho?
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st I mean, the original meaning persisted in common use for one heck of a long time, see e.g. terms like "mankind".
@antonia yet humankind is the preferred term these days.
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st The word "man" originally used to mean "human": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mann#Old_English